Dialect tempered with slang is an admirable medium of communication between persons who have nothing to say and persons who would not care for anything properly said.

No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.

It were better to be a soldier's widow than a coward's wife.

Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the voice.

The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine souls have been blighted in the gloom of poverty the world will never know.

What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.