
Farewell! If ever fondest prayer For other's weal availed on high, Mine will not all be lost in air But waft thy name beyond the sky.

There are only four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same: only love. : Don Juan De Marco

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Absence - that common cure of love.

All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.