Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.