Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.- Percy Bysshe Shelley
In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.
I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.
Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.
Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.
All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
