The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.

We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

It is delightful to kiss the eyelashes of the beloved--is it not? But never so delightful as when fresh tears are on them.

Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface; historians delve too deep for them. No history was ever true. Lives I have read which, if they were not, had the appearance, the interest, and the utility of truth.

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