Sylvarum Quotes & Sayings

And this spirit was the Diabolus sylvarum, the spirit of the forest and the wolves, whose home is in the marshes and the wilds, a spirit doughty and fearless, a spirit strong and free, yet also a furious one and a violent, beyond all understanding, winged like the storm-wind and burning as the heart of the world, but enslaved in the chains of Darkness. — Aino Kallas

Joly, perceiving a cat prowling on a gutter, extracted philosophy from it. "What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. The good God, having made the mouse, said: 'Hullo! I have committed a blunder.' And so he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, is the proof of creation revised and corrected. — Victor Hugo

Never buy at the bottom, and always sell too soon. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore

People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively. — P. J. O'Rourke

when a territory could change its national affiliation as the result of a marriage pact or a fortuitous inheritance, — Anonymous

Examine the measure of your children's capacities, and leave none of them uncultivated. However modest you may be in dress and other expenditures for a person of your rank, consecrate all you have to your children's education. — Sophie Von La Roche

A cup that is already full cannot have more added to it. In order to receive the further good, we must give of that which we have. — Margaret Becker

Along my journey / through this transitory world, / new year's housecleaning. — Matsuo Basho