To make a face from marble means to remove from the slab everything that is not the face

You look boldly ahead; isn't it only that you don't see or divine anything terrible in the future; because life is still hidden from your young eyes.

If you fear loneliness, then don't get married.

Brevity - the sister of talent.

When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life.

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.

Sometimes we go to a play and after the curtain has been up five minutes we have a sense of being able to settle back in the arms of the playwright. Instinctively we know that the playwright knows his business.