You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!

Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose!

So dear night the half of life is, And the fairest half indeed.