Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but less by assimilation than by friction.
Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.
Perfumes are the feelings of flowers, and as the human heart, imagining itself alone and unwatched, feels most deeply in the night-time, so seems it as if the flowers, in musing modesty, await the mantling eventide ere they give themselves up wholly to feeling...
Out of my great sorrows, I make little songs.
Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.
The sun's sweet ray is hovering discovered.