The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.
Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.
Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.
Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is.
Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become intoxicated.
Look at the sun! It’s dry, it’s dead, it needs a drink, it wants blood! And I’ll give it blood!