It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.

No sane man will dance.

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

I am of opinion that there is nothing so beautiful but that there is something still more beautiful, of which this is the mere image and expression,--a something which can neither be perceived by the eyes, the ears, nor any of the senses; we comprehend it merely in the imagination.

Friends, though absent, are still present.