As good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing.
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name
No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe.
There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
For love is heaven and heaven is love.