The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.
The heart that once has been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever.
Political men, like goats, usually thrive best among inequalities.
Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.
Life and death appear more certainly ours than whatsoever else; and yet hardly can that be called ours, which comes without our knowledge, and goes without it.