What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.

Love, if it be love indeed, asks no permission as to where it shall seek vantage ground or gain its victory - it is of all powers the most unfettered and the one which takes the widest course of largest liberty.

Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes.

The Press nowadays is not a literary press; classic diction and brilliancy of style do not distinguish it by any means.

It is not so difficult to win love as to keep it!

the beginning of my history is - love. It is the beginning of every man and every woman's history, if they are only frank enough to admit it.

Patriotism is understood to be that virtue which consists in serving one's country; but in what way is this 'Patria' or country served by slaying its able bodied men in thousands?