Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.

What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.

If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.

The most congenial social occasions are those ruled by cheerful deference of each for all.

I believe in God and in nature and in the triumph of good over evil.

A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.