Worry itself is one of the most painful conditions.
Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself.
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
Our first and last love is self-love.
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
some stories don't need telling
I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness.
But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.
Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes.