True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.

We don't have two hearts, one for animals and one for humans ; we have one heart or we don't have any.

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

Eternity is so certain and so terrible that a thousand lives would not suffice to prepare for it.

Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.