Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.

The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

I was always a lover of soft-winged things.

As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

The clouds,--the only birds that never sleep.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their number than the greatness of a man is determined by his height.

And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. For none upon earth can achieve his scheme; The best as the worst are futile here: We wake at the self-same point of the dream,-- All is here begun, and finished elsewhere.

King of the peak and glacier, King of the cold, white scalps, He lifts his head at that close tread, The eagle of the Alps.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.

You'll see that, since our fate is ruled by chance, Each man, unknowing, great, Should frame life so that at some future hour Fact and his dreamings meet.

The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. -Victor Hugo.

Then press my lips, where plays a flame of bliss,-- A pure and holy love-light,--and forsake The angel for the woman in a kiss, At once I wis, My soul will wake!