One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.

Love is a boaster at heart, who cannot hide the stolen horse without giving a glimpse of the bridle.

Never destroy without thought your enemy's pretences; they are usually your best weapon against him.

In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.

By her shining and her power he knew her.

It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that.

Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river.