A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
The stubbornest of wills Are soonest bended, as the hardest iron, O'er-heated in the fire to brittleness,Flies soonest into fragments, shivered through.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth!
I was born to join in love, not hate - that is my nature.
Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.