I have smelt all the aromas there are in the fragrant kitchen they call Earth; and what we can enjoy in this life, I surely have enjoyed just like a lord!

Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you. Oh, what lies there are in kisses!

Round my cradle shimmered the last moonbeams of the eighteenth century and the first morning rays of the nineteenth.

Life is the greatest of blessings and death the worst of evils.... all great, powerful souls love life.

First, I thought, almost despairing, This must crush my spirit now; Yet I bore it, and am bearing- Only do not ask me how.

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

The more i get to know people, the more i like dogs.