“The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind”

“If you have it (love), you don't need to have anything else. If you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.”

“Active evil is better than passive good”

“Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg”

“The busy bee has no time for sorrow”

“Let twenty pass, and stone the twenty-first, loving not, hating not, just choosing so”