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.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Too much sanity may be madness!

Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

Happy the man to whom heaven has given a morsel of bread without laying him under the obligation of thanking any other for it than heaven itself.

Love not what you are but only what you may become.