There's nothing in this world so sweet as love. And next to love the sweetest thing is hate.

There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.

When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.

Weak minds make treaties with the passions they cannot overcome, and try to purchase happiness at the expense of principle; but the resolute will of a strong man scorns such means, and struggles nobly with his foe to achieve great deeds.

Don Quixote thought he could have made beautiful bird-cages and toothpicks if his brain had not been so full of ideas of chivalry. Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

Man is unjust, but God is just; and finally justice triumphs.