There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.

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

Love is influenced by no consideration, recognizes no restraints of reason, and is of the same nature as death, that assails alike the lofty palaces of kings and the humble cabins of shepherds; and when it takes entire possession of a heart, the first thing it does is to banish fear and shame from it.

I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.

When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness ...Maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.