To make a young couple love each other, it is only necessary to oppose and separate them.

This world could not exist if it were not so simple. The ground has been tilled a thousand years, yet its powers remain ever the same; a little rain, a little sun, and each spring it grows green again.

Superstition is part of the poetry of life.

We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written; and of this but little is extant.

Everything is simpler than one can imagine, and yet complicated and inter-twined beyond comprehension.

It is impossible that beauty should ever distinctly appreciate itself.