Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.

For style beyond the genius never dares.

I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another's woe.

Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.

Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.