Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.

I have known men who have been sold and bought a hundred times, who have only got very fat and very comfortable in the process of exchange.

What we love once, we love forever. Shall there be joy in heaven over those who repent, yet no forgiveness for them upon earth? --"Wanda

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

Flowers belong to Fairyland: the flowers and the birds and the butterflies are all that the world has kept of its golden age--the only perfectly beautiful things on earth--joyous, innocent, half divine--useless, say they who are wiser than God.

Death! It is rest to the aged, it is oblivion to the atheist, it is immortality to the poet!

Why is youth so short and age so long?