There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.

He, who will not pardon others, must not himself expect pardon.

Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.

The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.

Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy.

There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.

We haven't time to spare to hear whether it was between Italy and Sicily that he ran into a storm or somewhere outside the world we know-when every day we're running into our own storms, spiritual storms, and driven by vice into all the troubles that Ulysses ever knew.