I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements.

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.

To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.

Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy.

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.