Mercy more becomes a magistrate than the vindictive wrath which men call justice.

They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.

In the mouths of many men soft words are like roses that soldiers put into the muzzles of their muskets on holidays.

The secret studies of an author are the sunken piers upon which is to rest the bridge of his fame, spanning the dark waters of oblivion. They are out of sight, but without them no superstructure can stand secure.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

We are all architects of faith, ever living in these walls of time.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.