Oh, they loved dearly: their souls kissed, they kissed with their eyes, they were both but one single kiss.

Silence is the essential condition of happiness.

I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.

Where words cease, there music begins.

On the waves of the brook she dances by, The light, the lovely dragon-fly; She dances here, she dances there, The shimmering, glimmering flutterer fair. And many a foolish young beetle's impressed By the blue gauze gown in which she is dressed; They admire the enamel that decks her bright, And her elegant waist so slim and slight.

Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.

The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.