“To frown at pleasure, and to smile in pain.”

“Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.”

“When Fortune smiles, I smile to think
How quickly she will frown.”

“Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy.”

“Behind a frowning providence
He hides a smiling face.”

“Her very frowns are fairer far
Than smiles of other maidens are.”

“Pleasure has desire in it. Desire is pain. There is no satisfaction. So pleasure is pain.”

“I don't regret my painful times, i bare my scars as if they were medals. I know that freedom has a high price, as high as that of slavery; the only difference is that you pay with pleasure and a smile, even when that that smile dimmed by tears”

“But by that time you do not much care whether she smiles or frowns. Why could she not have smiled when her smiles would have filled you with ecstasy? Everything comes too late in this world.”

“Have you noticed that the imbecile always smiles? Man's first frown is the first touch of God on his forehead. The touch of thought.”