It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.
Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed.
Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.
Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.