In New York, the buildings are like mountains in some ways, but they are only alive because of the people living in them. Real mountains are alive all over.

What does life give me in the end but sorrow?What do love's good and evil send but sorrow?I've only seen one true companion - pain, And I have known no faithful friend but sorrow.

I believe he was feeling a bit nervous. Possibly it was my costume that took him aback. I was dressed quite well, even elegantly, and looked as if I belonged to the best society.

Loss eventually arrives when something departs. Grief is working through both.

the lessons are best when the pain is worse

every frontier is doomed to produce an opposition beyond it. Nothing short of the universal can build the unfenced peace.

The iron chain and the silken cord are both equally bonds.

Political economy has only become a science since it has been confined to the results of inductive investigation.

After Rossini dies, who will be there to promote his music?

Someone once said, 'Adversity introduces a man to himself.' For some reason, that's scary, but most people discover that adversity does make them stronger.

Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.