Anger represents a certain power, when a great mind, prevented from executing its own generous desires, is moved by it.

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

Love doesn't hide. It stays and fights. It goes the distance, that's why love is so strong. So it can carry you all the way home.

There is no food more satiating than milk and honey; and just as such foods produce disgust for the palate, so perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.

Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

Why should the eyes be denied what delights them most?

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.