When you praise someone you call yourself his equal.

If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.

Love has the tendency of pressing together all the lights - all the rays emitted from the beloved object by the burning-glass of fantasy, - into one focus, and making of them one radiant sun without any spots.

All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless.

Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.

We don't get to know anything but what we love.