A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour.

Tell me, sweet eyes, from what divinest star did ye drink in your liquid melancholy?

Love is rarely a hypocrite; but hate--how detect and how guard against it! It lurks where you least expect it; it is created by causes that you can the least foresee; and civilization multiplies its varieties, whilst it favors its disguise.

It is only in some corner of the brain which we leave empty that Vice can obtain a lodging. When she knocks at your door be able to say: "No room for your ladyship; pass on.

Self-confidence is not hope; it is the self-judgment of your own internal forces in their relation to the world without, which results from the failure of many hopes and the non-realization of many fears.

Rank is a great beautifier.

What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor.