Circumstances should never alter principles!
He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.
It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.
A mask tells us more than a face.
You can fake intelligence, but you can't fake wit.
To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.