Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!

He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.

For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!

Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought - these are the artist's highest joy.

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.