The tenor's voice is spoilt by affectation, And for the bass, the beast can only bellow; In fact, he had no singing education, An ignorant, noteless, timeless, tuneless fellow.
O gold! I still prefer thee unto paper which makes bank credit like a bank of vapour.
People marry through a variety of other reasons, and with varying results; but to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.
There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do.
When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.
When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
Alas! while the body stands so broad and brawny, must the soul lie blinded, dwarfed, stupefied, almost annihilated? Alas! this was, too, a breath of God, bestowed in heaven, but on earth never to be unfolded!
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green
I'm very brave generally," he went on in a low voice: "only today I happen to have a headache.
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One is roots. The other is wings.
Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more.
The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.
The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One?s stupefied by it. To get rid of it you try to daub some of it off on to people who come to see you, and they hate that. To be alone trains one for death.
'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.
The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.