To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.

Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.

Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection rests on circumstantial evidence.

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.

My soul hates the fool whose only passion is to live by rule.

Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.