Give me those days with heart in riot, The depths of bliss that touched on pain, The force of hate, and love's disquiet- Ah, give me back my youth again!

Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought.

When you are in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated.

What in us the women leave uncultivated, children cultivate when we retain them near us.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.