Smiles form the channels of a future tear.

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

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

Old man! 'Tis not difficult to die.

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates - but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.

Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger.