I'm a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.
I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.
We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.