All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.
History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
If you wish to converse with me, define your terms.
He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice.
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.