Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
Fas est ab hoste doceri. One should learn even from one’s enemies.
Give me the waters of Lethe that numb the heart, if they exist, I will still not have the power to forget you.
Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow.
Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
Video meliora proboque, deteriora sequor.
He loved a lifeless thing and he was utterly and hopelessly wretched.
Not knowing what he sees, he adores the sight; That false face fools and fuels his delight.
I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.
Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.