When the world frowns, we can face it; but let it smile, and we are undone.

Success never needs an excuse.

Love is on the verge of hate each time it stoops for pardon.

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

I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.

The man who has acquired the habit of study, though for only one hour every day in the year, and keeps to the one thing studied till it is mastered, will be startled to see the way he has made at the end of a twelvemonth.

Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.