He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.
Women love energy and grand results.
Beside one deed of guilt, how blest is guiltless woe!
It is often the easiest move that completes the game.
I have wrought great use out of evil tools.
Of all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, there is none to be more delicately implied and less ostentatiously vaunted than that of exquisite feeling or universal benevolence.