Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.

Everything is destroyed by its own particular vice: the destructive power resides within. Rust destroys iron, moths destroy clothes, the worm eats away the wood; but greatest of all evils is envy, impious habitant of corrupt souls, which ever was, is, and shall be a consuming disease.

Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.

Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Art is man's refuge from adversity.

It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken.

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.