Sharp is the kiss of the falcon's beak.

I have wrought great use out of evil tools.

A man's heart must be very frivolous if the possession of fame rewards the labor to attain it. For the worst of reputation is that it is not palpable or present - we do not feel or see or taste it.

Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother.

If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success.

But never yet the dog our country fed, Betrayed the kindness or forgot the bread.

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.