Threats alone, are the weapons of the threatened man.

To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man.

Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest.

I woke up only to find the rest of the world asleep.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

O Time! consumer of all things; O envious age! thou dost destroy all things and devour all things with the relentless teeth of years, little by little in a slow death. Helen, when she looked in her mirror, seeing the withered wrinkles made in her face by old age, wept and wondered why she had twice been carried away.

Whatever you do in life, if you want to be creative and intelligent, and develop your brain, you must do everything with the awareness that everything, in some way, connects to everything else.