Young love is a flame very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.