So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.

For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short.

I b'lieve in religion, and one of these days, when I've got matters tight and snug, I calculates to tend to my soul.

the heaviest anguish often precedes a return tide of joy and courage.

Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.

Get your evidences of grace by pressing forward to the mark, and not by groping with a lantern after the boundary lines.

There is no phase of the Italian mind that has not found expression in its music.