What is better than to love and live with the loved? -- But that must sometimes bring us to live with the dead; and this too turns at last into a very tranquil and sweet tie, safe from change and injury.

Well, well, my boy, if good luck knocks at your door, don't you put your head out at window and tell it to be gone about its business, that's all.

To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise.

Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

We have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.

But what is opportunity to the man who can't use it?