Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
Evil is only good perverted.
Music is the universal language of mankind.
Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
Love gives itself; it is not bought.
Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.
Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.