The town itself is disagreeable; but then, all around, you find an inexpressible beauty of nature.

Love gives us in a moment what we can hardly attain by effort after years of toil.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

I can promise to be sincere, but not to be impartial.

The world only goes forward because of those who oppose it.

With fairest images of dreams infold him, Plunge him in seas of sweet untruth! Yet, for the threshold's magic which controlled him, The Devil needs a rat's quick tooth.