There are no eyes so sharp as the eyes of hatred.

Many persons feel art, some understand it; but few both feel and understand it.

A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.

The shadow of human life is traced upon a golden ground of immortal hope.

Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.

The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation.

The instinctive and universal taste of mankind selects flowers for the expression of its finest sympathies, their beauty and their fleetingness serving to make them the most fitting symbols of those delicate sentiments for which language itself seems almost too gross a medium.