Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.