A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood.
I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.
Pretty women without religion are like flowers without perfume.
We know only that our entire existence is forced into new paths and disrupted, that new circumstances, new joys and new sorrows await us, and that the unknown has its uncanny attractions, alluring and at the same time anguishing.
He who fears to venture as far as his heart urges and his reason permits, is a coward; he who ventures further than he intended to go, is a slave.