Love sacrifices all things to bless the thing it loves.

Better than fame is still the wish for fame, the constant training for a glorious strife.

In the hour of strait and need, we measure men's stature not by the body, but the soul!

Say what we will, you may be sure that ambition is an error; its wear and tear of heart are never recompensed, -it steals away the freshness of life, -it deadens its vivid and social enjoyments, -it shuts our souls to our own youth, -and we are old ere we remember that we have made a fever and a labor of our raciest years.

Beautiful eyes in the face of a handsome woman are like eloquence to speech.

Despair makes victims sometimes victors.

Society is a long series of uprising ridges, which from the first to the last offer no valley of repose. Whenever you take your stand, you are looked down upon by those above you, and reviled and pelted by those below you. Every creature you see is a farthing Sisyphus, pushing his little stone up some Liliputian mole-hill. This is our world.