“And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool’s eye.”

If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.

Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.

Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.

A fearful man is always hearing things.

Always desire to learn something useful.

A lie never lives to be old.

The happiest life is to be without thought.

Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.

To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.

Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.

Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.

Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.

You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.

Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.

I cannot love a friend whose love is words.

A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.

Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?

Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love’s lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.

A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books– I trow that countenance cannot lye Whose thoughts are legible in the eye.

I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.

There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.

It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,’ he answered. ‘Kiss me again; and don’t let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer—but yours! How can I?

All the dreams you planted in my eyes, will someday haunt you alive.

I would steal the sun, if that is what it took to bring the light back into your eyes.