Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare that productivity lasts through the years.

There is no patriotic art.

Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.

Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.

By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.

If you want someone to develop a specific trait, treat them as though they already had it.

It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.