“Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.”

“In all my wanderings through this world of care,In all my griefs -- and God has given my share --I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown,Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down;To husband out...”

“Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.”

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

“Hope, like the gleaming tapers light, adorns and cheers our way; and still, as darker grows the night, emits a brighter ray.”

“I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.”

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”

“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”