There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.
God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.
There is just one life for each of us: our own.
Song brings of itself a cheerfulness that wakes the heart of joy.
They who are sad find somehow sweetness in tears.