American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100oC

My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.

What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.

The light in her eyes was beyond description, yet it did not instill improper thoughts: it inspired a love tempered by awe, purifying the hearts it inflamed.

Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.

Books always speak of other books.

Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.