Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil before one loses him to death.

The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes.

Longing performs all things

We Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober.

There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.