Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope even the ruins to which it clings.

False friendship like the ivy decays and ruins the walls it embraces but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans finding our failures were successes.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent life shall be longer and shall pass into the immortal as gently as we awake from dreams.

Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all whether we like it or not perhaps even if we have never known them.

Jordan has a strange haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.