If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe.

In the marvelous month of May when all the buds were bursting, then in my heart did love arise. In the marvelous month of May when all the birds were singing, then did I reveal to her my yearning and longing.

Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

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

Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of St. John will seem like cooing doves and cupids in comparison.

Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.