The history of all the world tells us that immoral means will ever intercept good ends.

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

It [is] very unfair to influence a child's mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?

A woman's friendship borders more closely on love than man's. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.

And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.