A person who looks different all the time frightens me. Only one animal changes its skin: the snake.

Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.

Prose talks and poetry sings.

Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred.

The most irascible person is most likely to become apathetic in dangerous situations.

It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.

The sun of a prince's good graces resembles that in the skies in that it shines most kindly upon the blackest people.