Power is sweet, and when you are a little clerk you love its sweetness quite as much as if you were an emperor, and maybe you love it a good deal more.

Opposition to a man in love is like oil to fire.

Why is youth so short and age so long?

Death! It is rest to the aged, it is oblivion to the atheist, it is immortality to the poet!

The song that we hear with our ears is only the song that is sung in our hearts.

The joy of a strong nature is as cloudless as its suffering is desolate.

Indifference is the invincible grant of the world.