Most crimes are sanctioned in some form or other when they take grand names.

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

A pipe is a pocket philosopher,--a truer one than Socrates, for it never asks questions. Socrates must have been very tiresome, when one thinks of it.

Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it once winged.

No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.

The fire of true enthusiasm is like the fires of Baku, which no water can ever quench, and which burn steadily on from night to day, and year to year, because their well-spring is eternal.

There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married.