"Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interv..." — George William Curtis

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.