And when the echoes had ceased, like a sense of pain was the silence.

Make not thyself the judge of any man.

When you ask one friend to dine, Give him your best wine! When you ask two, The second best will do!

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Every man has a paradise around him till he sins, and the angel of an accusing conscience drives him from his Eden.

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

The human voice is the organ of the soul.