Venus yields to caresses, not to compulsion.

The eyes start love; intimacy perfects it.

Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it. -David Richo A rolling stone can gather no moss

Any one can hold the helm when the seas are calm.

Let your life be pleasing to the multitude, and it can not be so to yourself.

It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.

Confidence, like the soul, never returns whence it has once departed