To know where a thing is we must have found it.
Every need whose true satisfaction is denied leads by necessity to faith.
He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.
A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
I do not now begin, - I still adore Her whom I early cherish'd in my breast; Then once again with prudence dispossess'd, And to whose heart I'm driven back once more. The love of Petrarch, that all-glorious love, Was unrequited, and, alas, full sad.