What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

If a pretty woman only knew how anger improved her beauty! Her complexion needs no other paint than indignation.

The fox is very cunning, but he is more cunning who catches the fox.

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

All must yield to the weight of years; conquest is not difficult for time.

Tis not where we lie but whence we fell; the loss of Heaven's the greatest pain in Hell.

All just laws condemn cruelty.