There is not so agonizing a feeling in the whole catalogue of human suffering as the first conviction that the heart of the being whom we most tender….

A woman may live without a lover, but a lover once admitted, she never goes through life with only one. She is deserted, and cannot bear her anguish ….

Lovers have an ineffable instinct which detects the presence of rivals..

Whoever, with an earnest soul, Strives for some end from this low world afar, Still upward travels though he miss the goal, And strays--but towards a….

There are two things in life that a sage must preserve at every sacrifice, the coats of his stomach and the enamel of his teeth. Some evils admit of ….

Whatever you lend let it be your money, and not your name. Money you may get again, and, if not, you may contrive to do without it; name once lost yo….