What a thing friendship is - World without end.

Italy, my Italy! Queen Mary's saying serves for me (When fortune's malice Lost her Calais): "Open my heart, and you will see Graved inside of it 'Italy.'"

All the breath and the bloom of the year in the bag of one bee; All the wonder and wealth of the mine in the heart of one gem; In the core of one pearl all the shade and the shine of the sea; Breath and bloom, shade and shine,- wonder, wealth, and-how far above them- Truth, that's brighter than gem, Truth, that's purer than pearl,- Brightest truth, purest trust in the universe- all were for me In the kiss of one girl.

The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!

Tis looking downward makes one dizzy.

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so; life's business being just the terrible choice.

A lion may die of an ass's kick.