I quote another man's saying; unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.

We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet. Thus, in his sonnets, the lays of birds, the scents and dyes of flowers, he finds to be the shadow of his beloved; time, which keeps her from him, is his chest; the suspicion she has awakened, is her ornament

The terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios. If one man in twenty thousand, or in thirty thousand, eats shoes, or marries his grandmother, then, in every twenty thousand, or thirty thousand, is found one man who eats shoes, or marries his grandmother.

Life only avails, not the having lived.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

Wherever there is power there is age.