外国名著的经典语句

坚忍的人格的力量可以使我们忍受坏得多的事呢。 一颗仁爱的心比智慧更好，更有力量。 懒惰是一切罪恶的根源。 爱情高出一切尘世的考虑。

谁能写几个经典的英文句子，最好是出自外国文学里的。thanks!

1. An individual human existence should be like a river – small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being.
2.I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy --ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy.