Words should be only the clothes, carefully custom-made to fit the thought.
In literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring.
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
Fame is a constant effort
It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to be filled with eagerness to live.
Broken china lasts longer than unbroken.