Time is the only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune.
Wisdom can boast no higher attainment than happiness.
One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.
I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.
How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!
Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.
The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured. Unhappy they who have never been taught the art to govern them!
It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.
When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?
For us the Dresden Dolls were porcelain dolls that were made in that city at the time, that is what they were to us, and also a reference in Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut, and in a song by The Fall.
[Leafpool] waved her tail in greeting as she padded past Cloudtail and Daisy; as she left the clearing she heard Cloudtail meowing, "This time try to pretend I'm a badger and I'm going to eat your kits. " "But my kits really like you," Daisy protested.