I hate you most because you attract, but are not strong enough to pull me to you.

Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once!

Be careful who you choose as your enemy because that's who you become most like.

The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.

At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to glimmer around him, and the earth seems to sink ever deeper downwards.

One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.

He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart.