Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

For men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth.

Those who love are but one step from heaven.

He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty.

There is a law of neutralization of forces, which hinders bodies from sinking beyond a certain depth in the sea; but in the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

Who is it needs such flawless shafts as fate? What archer of his arrows is so choice, or hits the white so surely?

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.