No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.

When you give, therefore, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give.

Of all the uses of adversity which are sweet, none are sweeter than those which grow out of disappointed love.

No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

We figure to ourselves The thing we like; and then we build it up, As chance will have it, on the rock or sand,- For thought is tired of wandering o'er the world, And homebound Fancy runs her bark ashore.

He who gives only what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.