Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

All Heaven and Earth are still, though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most.

What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and heals but to wear That which disfigures it.

This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

But I had not quite fixed whether to make him [Don Juan] end in Hell-or in an unhappy marriage,-not knowing which would be the severest.

The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.