... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.

move not in your anger; it is like putting to sea in a tempest.

There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

... how poorly do we love even those whom we love most! We are not only bruised by the limitations of their love for us, but also by the limitations of our own love for them.

youth is always sure that change must mean something better.

the nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.

if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.