Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves.
The worst, the least curable hatred is that which has superseded deep love.
There is no harbor of peace from the changing waves of joy and despair.
Common sense is the best prophet.
Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.
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.