“Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.”

Hope is the best part of our riches.

Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.

In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

A book should be luminous not voluminous.

We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.

Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.

Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.

Give me the character and I will forecast the event.

To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.

If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.

Baby I’m a pro at letting go, I love it when they come and go.

There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.

The regret of my life is that I have not said ‘I love you’ often enough.

What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven’t even happened yet.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Never play with the feelings of others, because you may win the game but the risk is that you will surely lose the person for life time.

Our job is improving the quality of life, not just delaying death.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.