The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.

Reserve may be pride fortified in ice; dignity is worth reposing on truth.

To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.

He who is master of all opinions can never be the bigot of any.

The flower which we do not pluck is the only one which never loses its beauty or its fragrance.

Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety, And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication Which is more sober far than all sobriety.

In the nine heavens are eight Paradises; Where is the ninth one? In the human breast. Only the blessed dwell in th' Paradises, But blessedness dwells in the human breast.