I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.

By daily dying, I have come to be.

What is madness but nobility of the soul at odds with circumstance.

The whole night I was thinking and dreaming to give you the most beautiful gift and that is my heart.

Thoughts and feelings produce actions. Sinful thoughts and feelings produce sinful actions.

Where you are is who you are. The further inside you the place moves, the more your identity is intertwined with it. Never casual, the choice of place is the choice of something you crave.

A prince need take little account of conspiracies if the people are disposed in his favor.

If your hair is done properly you can get away with anything

Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy

The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery.

I must get out all my ambitions and dust them.

because we are always staring at the stars, we learn the shortness of our arms.

Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.