It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs.

There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

Education was almost entirely a matter of luck — usually of ill-luck — in those distant days.