Friendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading.

Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.

Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals

You may build castles in the air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly, if you please. But I tell you, no man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or will be so.

Friendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading.

Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her.