I think hearts are very much like glasses - if they do not break with the first ring they usually last a considerable time.

Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great generous and true without it we are little false and mean.

All sweeping assertions are erroneous.

Whatever people in general do not understand they are always prepared to dislike the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.

Were it not better to forget Than to remember and regret?