Transience

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind

Life is half spent before we know what it is

While we are postponing, life speeds by

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol

Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us; footprints on the sands of time.

All my life I still have found, and I will forget it never; every sorrow hath its bound, and no cross endures forever.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion

Paper napkins never return from a laundry - nor love from a trip to the law courts