I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.

An unusual beginning must have an unusual end.

In people's eyes I readPages of malice and sin.

In the first place, [his eyes] never laughed when he laughed. Have you ever noticed this peculiarity some people have? It is either the sign of an evil nature or of a profound and lasting sorrow.

In simple hearts the feeling for the beauty and grandeur of nature is a hundred-fold stronger and more vivid than in us, ecstatic composers of narratives in words and on paper.

O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!

We practically always excuse things when we understand them