Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion. - William Makepeace Thackeray

Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.

Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you.

What man's life is not overtaken by one or more of those tornadoes that send us out of the course, and fling us on rocks to shelter as best we may?

An intelligent wife can make her home, in spite of exigencies, pretty much what she pleases.

Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.

To forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?