The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily.

the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends.

When we think of all the things we want to do with our other half the answer should be simple; we should want to do absolutely everything with them. We should want to experience everything, feel everything, see everything with no one but them by our sides. When we look back on our lives it's not the things we did do with them that we'll regret, it's the things we didn't do.

To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for?