It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it.

The moon is hidden behind a cloud... On the leaves is a sound of falling rain... No other sounds than these I hear; The hour of midnight must be near... So many ghosts, and forms of fright, Have started from their graves to-night, They have driven sleep from mine eyes away: I will go down to the chapel and pray.

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.

A man must be of a very quiet and happy nature, who can long endure the country; and, moreover, very well contented with his own insignificant person.