When love is not madness, it is not love.

What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?

No virtue can be real that has not been tried. The gold in the crucible alone is perfect; the loadstone tests the steel, and the diamond is tried by the diamond, while metals gleam the brighter in the furnace.

For man's greatest crime is to have been born.

How surely a knowledge of the world hardens the heart!

Our treasures trifles seem, and all our life is dreaming, and the dreams themselves are dreams.

Great events have sent before them their announcements.