No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one reward of virtue.
To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.
The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery.
No loose fish enters our quiet bay.
[Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time.
her age was that indeterminate mixture of everlasting youth and anticipated wisdom which is the glory and the curse of genius.