In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success.

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.

Laws die, books never.

Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.

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.

Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.