Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.

A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!

Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.

Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

What dangers you run, O noble souls! Often, you give your heart, but we take only your body. Your heart is left to you and you look at it in the shadows and shudder.

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.