The world loves a spice of wickedness.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.

Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

It is folly to pretend that one ever wholly recovers from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar. There are faces I can never look upon without emotion, there are names I can never hear spoken without almost starting.

The sentence of the first murderer was pronounced by the Supreme Judge of the universe. Was it death? No, it was life. 'A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth'; and 'Whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold.

Today is the blocks with which we build.