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

To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.

Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.

Rarest of all things on earth is the union in which both, by their contrasts, make harmonious their blending; each supplying the defects of the helpmate, and completing, by fusion, one strong human soul.

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

Patience is a good palfrey, and will carry us a long day.

Nothing really immoral is ever permanently popular.