He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton.
It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. Hari -William M. Thackeray.
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of children.
Novelty has charms that our mind can hardly withstand.
Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.
Titles are abolished; and the American Republic swarms with men claiming and bearing them.
Next to the very young, the very old are the most selfish.
I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion. - William Makepeace Thackeray,