Anything cracked will shatter at a touch.

Happy is he who dares courageously to defend what he loves.

Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceive us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years.

Sleep, rest of nature, O sleep, most gentle of the divinities, peace of the soul, thou at whose presence care disappears, who soothest hearts wearied with daily employments, and makest them strong again for labour!

Things which of themselves avail nothing, when united become powerful.

Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved?

To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another.