Ah! that Senate is a world of ice and darkness! It votes the destruction of peoples as the simplest and wisest thing; for its members themselves are moribund.
I know that I have found fulfillment. I have an object in life, a task ... a passion.
Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.
Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.
Admiration and familiarity are strangers.
Fame and admiration weigh not a feather in the scale against friendship and love, for the heart languishes all the same.