"And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that..." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier.”

“Gold were as good as twenty orators.”

“Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us?”

“Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.”

“You have to remember something: Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.”

“Jealousy is not love, but self-love.”

“One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life.”

“I still like to live in a whimsical world that seems more romantic and fantasy-related because real life seems so hard”

“Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.”