We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love.
It seems to me that we become more dear one to the other, in together admiring works of art, which speak to the soul by their true grandeur.
Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time.
The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.
One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.