“To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away”

“Oblivion - what a blessing...for the mind to dwell a world away from pain.”

“Whatever is sought for can be caught, you know, whatever is neglected slips away.”

“A man's anger can never age and fade away, not until he dies. The dead alone feel no pain.”

“Your edict, King, was strong,But all your strength is weakness itself againstThe immortal unrecorded laws of God.They are not merely now: they were, and shall be,Operative for ever, beyond man utterly.I knew I must die, even without your decree:I am only mortal. And if I must dieNow, before it is my time to die,Surely this is no hardship: can anyoneLiving, as I live, with evil all about me,Think Death less than a friend?”

“What greater wound is there than a false friend?”

“I have no love for a friend who loves in words alone.”