Youth is stranger than fiction.
Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.
The worst of slaves is he whom passion rules.
A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.
Proud, then, clear-eyed and laughing, go to greet Death as a friend!
And in that Heaven of all their wish, there shall be no more land, say fish