“I never saw Death before, and now I seeThat it is warring eyes in a woman's form.”

“Those who have wisdom have all:Fools with all have nothing.”

“It is politics to please and hoodwink thoseWho flatter but despise us.”

“Those are fools however learnedWho have not learned to walk with the world.”

“When the rare chance comes, seize itTo do the rare deed.”

“It is compassion, the most gracious of virtues,Which moves the world.”

“The vast world rainless, one may bid adieuTo charity and penance.”

“They call this war a cloud over the land. But they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and say 'Shit, it's raining!”

“Halfway home, the sky goes from dark gray to almost black and a loud thunder snap accompanies the first few raindrops that fall. Heavy, warm, big drops, they drench me in seconds, like an overturne...”

“For the rest of my life, Zanzibar will be the Swahili word for rain. The rain would drizzle, spit, mist, downpour, shower, torrent, gust, deluge and blast. At one point it hit the ground so hard it...”

“I see your point. It irks you to see anyone at all who is able to work permitted to live without working. But why do you consider work a virtue?”

“Those who have wisdom have all:Fools with all have nothing.”

“Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.”