Perhaps love is only the highest symbol of friendship, as all other things seem symbols of love.

Human beings cannot endure the geological chaos they encounter under the soil of their own gardens.

A nation never falls but by suicide.

Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise By the stairway of surprise.

Why should the way I feel depend on the thoughts in someone else's head?

Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence.

Imitation cannot go above its model.