The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.

Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

The great secrets of being courted are, to shun others, and seem delighted with yourself.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from hell-Art and Science. But art is more godlike than science; science discovers, art creates.

People praise us behind our backs, but we hear them not; few before our faces, and who is not suspicious of the truth of such praise?

Ambition has no rest.