Though Hope be a small child, she can carry a great anchor!

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

Sooner mayest thou trust thy pocket to a pickpocket than give loyal friendship to the man who boasts of eyes to the heart never mounts in dew! Only when man weeps he should be alone, not because tears are weak, but they should be secret. Tears are akin to prayer,--Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.

Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother.

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

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

Julius Caesar owed two millions when he risked the experiment of being general in Gaul. If Julius Caesar had not lived to cross the Rubicon, and pay off his debts, what would his creditors have called Julius Caesar?