Lovers have a way of using this word "nothing" which implies exactly the opposite.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

Self-interest is an ineffable feeling which shall follow us into God's very presence since they say there is a hierarchy even among the Holy Saints.

Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!

It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.

Life is simply what out feelings do to us.

There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.