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"A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin."
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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."

"There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men."
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"Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization."


"Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence."


"Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins."
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