Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.

It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone and can be made as offensive as a brickbat.

He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for his love I would surrender heaven.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.