There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.

I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.

The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.

The worse of ingratitude lies not in the ossified heart of him who commits it, but we find it in the effect it produces on him against whom it was committed.

Let me take up your metaphor. Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat or violence or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after. The more graceful and ornamental it was, the more clearly do we discern the hopelessness of restoring it to its former state. Coarse stones, if they are fractured, may be cemented again; precious stones, never.

The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.