Chance arrives unannounced. It emerges, and when it leaves, we are lucky if the changes it has produced are only external.

Prose talks and poetry sings.

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.

Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discardsit with indifference.

Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.

It is open to question whether the highly individualized characters we find in Shakespeare are perhaps not detrimental to the dramatic effect. The human being disappears to the same degree as the individual emerges.