I am a religious person$$$ although I am not a believer.

What is worth having is worth working for.

The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless$$$ uncouth$$$ concatenations of life.

The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started$$$ and no-one will tell you the plot$$$ so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.

What dire offence from am'rous causes springs$$$<br/>What mighty contests rise from trivial things$$$...

Why does everything that lives have to die? <br/>So life would be precious. Something that is yours forever$$$ is never precious.

I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

Vice is a monster of so frightful mienAs to be hated needs but to be seen;Yet seen too oft$$$ familiar with her face$$$We first endure$$$ then pity$$$ then embrace.

Music$$$ to create harmony$$$ must investigate discord.

But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light$$$ and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.