One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

Always desire to learn something useful

Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.

There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

Love is a pure force without claim to power.

We all need something to do, someone to love, and something to hope for.

Never let your dreams go away.

When it came to my art, I went my own way and did not follow the trends.

This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.

Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.

No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such

I don't do all that well in the writerly world. I'm happier being outside the flow.

God rewards according to the mannerin which He is conceived or approached.

Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.