What is one person's diversion may be another's supreme test.

When he comes into a room, you give a little gasp, deep inside, far inside,' someone once said when trying to describe what it meant to love.

Defeat I can endure with cheerfulness, my lady. But betrayal is like taking the wind from my sails, or the earth from beneath my feet. It chills my spirits like a rainy day, and all I can do is draw the curtains and cry into my pillow.

Hope is a straw hat hanging beside a window covered with frost.

Thus we use our supposed "knowledge" of others to speak on their behalf, and condemn them for their words we ourselves put in their silent mouths.

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

In my experience, there are two things that no one will admit to: having no sense of humor and being susceptible to flattery.