Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.

Which of us that is thirty years old has not had its Pompeii? Deep under ashes lies the life of youth--the careless sport, the pleasure and the passion, the darling joy.

Life is soul's nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.

Pray God, keep us simple.

The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.

Business first; pleasure afterwards.

A woman's heart is just like a lithographer's stone; what is once written upon it cannot be rubbed out.