Let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.

Beauty is such a fleeting blossom, how can wisdom rely upon its momentary delight?

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Resistance to oppression is second nature.