Power is a companion it is not easy to part with, when it goes, the zest of life goes with it. With dry eyes and clenched fist, one stares after it, jealous of the next one it will single out.

What curious little corners of folly are to be found in even the sanest brain!

To be entirely happy in marriage, the same thing must be important to both.

We who are placed above the crowd are not climbing ... so we are never out of breath.

in much knowledge there is also much grief.

Nothing is ours really, not even our own souls!

Are all ends of life so sad?