It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.

He had the superficial kindness of a good-humored, self-satisfied nature, that fears no rivalry, and has encountered no contrarieties.

The dew-bead Gem of earth and sky begotten.

It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again.

You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only es

A good horse makes short miles.

Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment.