The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master.

Do anything but love; or if thou lovest and art a woman, hide thy love from him whom thou dost worship; never let him know how dear he is; flit like a bird before him; lead him from tree to tree, from flower to flower; but be not won, or thou wilt, like that bird, when caught and caged, be left to pine neglected and perish in forgetfulness.

The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.

All beginnings are very troublesome things.

who has not experienced, at some time or other, that words had all the relief of tears?

though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there.

Ignorance, far more than idleness, is the mother of all the vices; and how recent has been the admission, that knowledge should be the portion of all? The destinies of the future lie in judicious education; an education that must be universal, to be beneficial.