It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art.

Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.

Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. [The rolling snow-ball.]

I see and approve better things, but follow worse.

Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

I see and praise what is better, but follow what is worse.

Love's dominion, like a kings, admits of no partition.