Boredom: the desire for desires.

What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.

These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw nothing but the sand; yet there were brighter moments when she felt nothing but joy, saw nothing but the gold.

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter.

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

Quos vilt perdere dementat' Whome the gods wish to destroy, they first drive made (Latin).

Happy people have no history.