A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.

Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

What skilful limner e'er would choose To paint the rainbow's varying hues, Unless to mortal it were given To dip his brush in dyes of heaven?

For love is heaven and heaven is love.

It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it.