The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.