It was like the eve of a battle the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.

As a general rule people ask for advice only in order not to follow it or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.

That is a dream also, only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?

On what a slender threads our fortune and our life hang!

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope'.

All human wisdom is contained in these two words--Wait and Hope.

Slander and libel would not have such a force, if stupidity did not pave their way.

The proper way to check slander is to despise it; attempt to overtake and refute it, and it will outrun you.

A good surgeon operates with his hand, not with his heart.

Hatred is blind, rage carries you away, and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.