The man who seeks one thing in life and but one May hope to achieve it before life is done; But he who seeks all things, wherever he goes Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows A harvest of barren regrets

Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can. (Last words of a Sensitive Second-Rate Poet)

Art is Nature made by Man To Man the interpreter of God

The world is filled with folly and sin, And Love must cling, where it can, I say: For Beauty is easy enough to win; But one isn't loved every day

Oh, moment of sweet peril, perilous sweet! When woman joins herself to man

The things which must be must be for the best

Those true eyes Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise The sweet soul shining through them

We may live without friends; we may live without books. But civilized men cannot live without cooks.

One of the sublimest thing in the world is plain truth.

Let any man show the world that he feels Afraid of its bark and 't will fly at his heels: Let him fearlessly face it, 't will leave him alone: But 't will fawn at his feet if he flings it a bone