No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.
A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.
Forgiveness is the finding again of a lost possession.
Futurity is impregnable to mortal ken: no prayer pierces through heaven's adamantine walls. Whether the birds fly right or left, whatever be the aspect of the stars, the book of nature is a maze, dreams are a lie, and every sign a falsehood.
If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.