You know There are moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken.

Men of strong affections are jealous of their own genius. They fear lest they should be loved for a quality, and not for themselves.

In some exquisite critical hints on "Eurythmy," Goethe remarks, "that the best composition in pictures is that which, observing the most delicate laws of harmony, so arranges the objects that they by their position tell their own story." And the rule thus applied to composition in painting applies no less to composition in literature.

Woman makes half the sorrows which she boasts the privilege to sooth. Woman consoles us, it is true, while we are young and handsome; when we are old and ugly, woman snubs and scolds us. On the whole, then, woman in this scale, the weed in that. Jupiter! Hang out thy balance, and weigh them both; and if thou give the preference to woman, all I can say is, the next time Juno ruffles thee, O Jupiter, try the weed.

Keep we to the broad truths before us; duty here; knowledge comes alone in the Hereafter.

Women love energy and grand results.

The easiest person to deceive is one's self.