But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.

It is difficult to get rid of people when you once have given them too much pleasure.

The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental.

Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning.

Foolishness and criticism are so apt, do so naturally go together!

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'