In the book of human life the initial chapter and the last page are more or less alike: the one has as much to say as the other.Narrator
The stone may have its laws, but the soul has its own, less fifteen and more one; and in the necessary concourse of the two, the spirit should prevail.Narrator
There is only one way to understand everything in life the way God understands it, and that is to stop being just a man.Narrator
We ought to economise our hatred, and not waste it on a petty object, if our store of it is small.Narrator
Take a foolish idea, put it into rhyme, cast over it a veil of supernatural grace, and this will force the youth to chew the cud...Narrator
Hatred is a creative passion; it erects temples and constructs altars, and peoples them with demons.Narrator
Innocence does not always have blue eyes, nor guilt more somber colors.Narrator
Love is a sort of madness, says Diogenes. Certainly, but Diogenes is a fool. It is more accurate to say that madness is a kind of love.Narrator
There are some subtle observations that escape the common run of men, and become visible only to the eyes of intellect.Narrator
True, the heart is a perpetual fountain of illusions; but are not illusions the sun, coffee and poetry of life?Narrator