Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.
Let us be merciful as well as just.
The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.