The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere you can't see it - but all the same it is sixteen pounds to the square inch.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

We fly with our dreams, we fall with our hesitations!

Even in the smallest of packages comes the power of strength

Love means making time for that special someone - even when you don't have the time.

When you delegate tasks, you create followers. When you delegate authority, you create leaders.

In Necessary Marriage, I tried to repeat entire phrases without the reader noticing. My work doesn't have the rigor of music, but I hope it alludes to it.

Life is rapid, art is slow, occasion coy, practice fallacious, and judgment partial.

How happy the lover, How easy his chain, How pleasing his pain, How sweet to discover He sighs not in vain.

For men to tell how human life began Is hard; for who himself beginning knew?

The world we live in will be either better or worse depending on whether we become better or worse.

While discretion points out the impropriety of my conduct, inclination urges me on to ruin.