The heart feels, the head compares.

Love decreases when it ceases to increase.

We must not always try to plumb the depths of the human heart; the truths it contains are among those that are best seen in half-light or in perspective.

Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them.

An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.

Alexander created cities everywhere he passed: I have left dreams everywhere I have trailed my life.

Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite; and this rare conjuncture, like that of certain planets, appears to occur only after the revolution of several cycles, and only lasts for an instant.