The rogue has everywhere the advantage.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!

Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose!

When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.

The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity.

The history of mankind is his character.