Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains.

Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of a man than any I yet behold

There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry.

The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .

In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity.

Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.

We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited.