Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down.

Life is too short to blend in.

In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

One thousand days to learn; ten thousand days to refine.

Hope is only the love of life.

Life is too short for a long story.

Be thine enemy an ant, see in him an elephant.

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.