The mouth keeps silent to hear the heart speak.

Taxes are a universal burden in moral as well as in civil life. There is not a pleasure, social or otherwise, which is not assessed by fate at its full value!

What I need is a woman who is something, anything: either very beautiful or very kind or in the last resort very wicked; very witty or very stupid, but something.

The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.

Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become intoxicated.

The soft contralto notes of a woman's voice are born in the immediate region of the heart.

Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to?