Everything is sweetened by risk. — Alexander Smith

"The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other."

"Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well."

"In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place to-day, it is vain to seek it there to-morrow. You can not lay a trap for it."