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

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

Those we love can but walk down to the pier with us - the voyage we must make alone.

The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.

Fairy roses, fairy rings, turn out sometimes troublesome things.

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.

There is no man that can teach us to be gentlemen better than Joseph Addison.