Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion.
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
There's no one as transparent as the person who thinks he's devilish deep.
She loved three things — a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.