Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.
Lofty mountains are full of springs; great hearts are full of tears.
Length of saying makes languor of hearing.
Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.
The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage.
The Holy Scriptures praise the dew of the morning and the dew of the evening; ros matutinum, ros serotinum! Happy is he who possesses the gift of tears! when young, he will bear flowers; when old, fruit!