Every wind is fare when we are flying from misfortune.
Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Life is one long process of getting tired.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage
God grant that by my persevering labours I may bring a little stone to the frail and ill-assured edifice of our knowledge of those deep mysteries of Life and Death where all our intellects have so lamentably failed.
She wondered why they didn't understand that their true selfs were good enough, and if they weren't, then the someones they weren't good enough for, were really the ones not good enough.