You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.

Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.

Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original.

Lay hold of life with both hands, whenever thou mayest seize it, it is interesting.

The new vulcanism is really a daring attempt to connect the present, incomprehensible world to a past, unknown one.

There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).