It is often the easiest move that completes the game.

Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.

The imagination acquires by custom a certain involuntary, unconscious power of observation and comparison, correcting its own mistakes, and arriving at precision of judgment, just as the outward eye is disciplined to compare, adjust, estimate, measure, the objects reflected on the back of its retina.

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

The heart of a girl is like a convent--the holier the cloister, the more charitable the door.

Philosophy, while it soothes the reason, damps the ambition.

Beside one deed of guilt, how blest is guiltless woe!