One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.
Love, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion!
Genius inspires this thirst for fame: there is no blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave the means of winning it.
There is no second country for an Englishman, except a ship and the sea.
All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive.
We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love.