Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

• What is harder than rock, or softer than water Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.
• Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.
• All things change, nothing perishes.
• Love is a kind of warfare.
• Nothing is stronger than habit.
• Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
• Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.
• Courage conquers all things.
• How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand.
• We two are to ourselves a crowd.