Beauty is a perilous gift.

Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as he was, people just give up and go away.

To have faith in Divine protection is good, but even beter if backed by the pratical assistance heaven has a right to expect from sensible mortals.

Here I begin to know that blessedness is what can be snatched out the passing day and put away to think of afterwards.

the success of a holiday depends on what you find for yourself on the spot, not what you bring with you.

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.