As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.

Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference.

Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.

God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being.

Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.

Adversity is like the period of the rain. . . cold, comfortless, unfriendly to people and to animals; yet from that season have their birth the flower, the fruit, the date, the rose and the pomegranate.

For love is heaven and heaven is love.