Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason. More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. Perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly - but then perhaps, also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the second degree.

The tears of anguish irritate and excite; but those of repentance are the ones that wash.

The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.

And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

Dream abides; it is the only things that abides; vision abides.