Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
...remember that what has once been done may be done again.
To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.