There is an innocence in lying which is the sign of good faith in a cause.
Is not wounded vanity the mother of all tragedies?
What doesn't kill you, only makes you stronger
The wittiest authors evoke a barely perceptible smile.
We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don't throw out the best part of ourselves.
It was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of blood: but they took even these sweet and gloomy poisons from body and earth. They wanted to escape their own misery, and the stars were too far for them.