“Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.”
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Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.