“A bad beginning makes a bad ending.”

“Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes angry.”

“Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.”

“Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.”

“Hast thou ice that thou shalt bind itTo thy breast, and make thee deadTo thy children, to thine own spirit's pain?When the hand knows what it dares,When thine eyes look into theirs,Shalt thou keep by tears unblindedThy dividing of the slain?These be deeds Not for thee:These be things that cannot be!”

“Try refusing the arrangement, or later petition for divorce -- the first is impossible while the second is like admitting you're a whore.”

“A woman like me! What am I like that's different from you or any man”