Kindness is stronger than iron bars.

Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine - that is, activity - which could solve it, is seen as odious.

The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night's sleep.

The strong look for more strength, the weak for excuses.

We are more than our bodies, it is true; but we cannot be divorced from them. They are us, and the only way in which we can see one another. Perhaps the gods are above this, but in their mercy, they have given us the guise of bodies.

Perhaps life is like an hour glass, with dear ones the sand that slips from the upper glass--the earth--into the second--eternity.

One always imagines that the days that change one’s life must be marked with something extraordinary in nature—storms and lightning, darkness at noon, and so on. In truth they are indistinguishable from any other, which is one reason we feel mocked, as if the world is telling us we are inconsequential.