Fiction is the microscope of truth.

Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages.

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the latter there is no difference but in the victim.

Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out; political passions, never.

The most effective coquetry is innocence.

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.