There's no weapon that slays its victim so surely (if well aimed) as praise.

They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge.

Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.

Childhood and genius have the same master organ in common - inquisitiveness.

Curse away! And let me tell thee, Beausant, a wise proverb The Arabs have,-"Curses are like young chickens, And still come home to roost."

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

Life is short - while we speak it flies; enjoy, then, the present, and forget the future; such is the moral of ancient poetry, a graceful and a wise moral - indulged beneath a southern sky, and all deserving, the phrase applied to it - the philosophy of the garden.