Love is a very contradiction of all the elements of our ordinary nature -- it makes the proud man meek -- the cheerful, sad -- the high-spirited, tame; our strongest resolutions, our hardiest energy fail before it. Believe me, you cannot prophesy of its future effect in a man from any knowledge of his past character.

We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments.

The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.

Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.

Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two.

Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.

If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness.