The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return.

It is quite fitting that charity should begin at home ... but then it should not end at home; for those that help nobody will find none to help them in time of need.

there is no reasoning with imagination.

why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people?

When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I advance, the happy prospect of futurity shall vanish only with my existence.

The Irish sometimes make and keep a vow against whiskey; these vows are usually limited to a short time.

Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.