One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.

All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.

You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.

Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak.

Here lies a gentleman bold Who was so very brave He went to lengths untold, And on the brink of the grave Death had on him no hold. By the world he set small store-- He frightened it to the core-- Yet somehow, by Fate's plan, Though he'd lived a crazy man, When he died he was sane once more.

There is nothing costs less than civility.

Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.