No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.
O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command.
It is delightful to kiss the eyelashes of the beloved--is it not? But never so delightful as when fresh tears are on them.
Great men always pay deference to greater.
Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language.