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

A chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped asunder in every parting, and time's busy fingers are not practiced in re-splicing broken ties. Meet again you may; will it be in the same way? With the same sympathies? With the same sentiments? Will the souls, hurrying on in diverse paths, unite once more, as if the interval had been a dream? Rarely, rarely!

He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future.

Patience is the courage of the conqueror, the strength of man against destiny.

The curse of the great is ennui.

The secret of fashion is to surprise and never to disappoint.

Alone!-that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE!