Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
Wealth is the least trustworthy of anchors.
I softly sink into the bath of sleep: With eyelids shut, I see around me close The mottled, violet vapors of the deep, That wraps me in repose.
The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.
A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.