Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.
I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it; but they are tuned differently in every one of us.
Those who love are but one step from heaven.
Idleness induces caprice.
It is only the intellect that can be thoroughly and hideously wicked. It can forget everything in the attainment of its ends. The heart recoils; in its retired some drops of childhood's dew still linger, defying manhood's fiery noon.