Castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Love is a very contradiction of all the elements of our ordinary nature: it makes the proud man meek,—the cheerful, sad,—the high-spirited, tame; our strongest resolutions, our hardiest energy, fall before it. Believe me, you cannot prophesy of its future effect in a man from any knowledge of his past character.

Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword.

The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.