Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant.
Fool that I am," said he,"that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself".
What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to avenge myself!
When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.
For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.
It was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.
...The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground...they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us...
In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.
Be kind, aim for my heart.
Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.
Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another,