“We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.”

“Anger is a brief madness.”

“Anger was washed away in the river along with any obligation.”

“Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.”

“How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.”

“To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish.”

“Revenge could steal a man's life until there was nothing left but emptiness.”

“I still want to be angry, but I have to let my anger go.”

“Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its consummation.”

“…but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur, especially when one is all too highly conscious of the hope...”

“Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.”

“Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread; rarely is it only a door.”