Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot.Ê It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even.

They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.

Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Take away the motive, and you take away the sin.

Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.