A benefit cited by way of reproach is equivalent to an injury.

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.

A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.

Extreme justice is often injustice.

Love is not dumb. The heart speaks many ways.

Sun, I come to see you for the last time.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

How good is God! How sweet his yoke!

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

The face of tyranny Is always mild at first.

What is life? It is like a shadow that appears and vanishes.

People just need to be confident in their own skin and be proud of themselves.

Truth is like nuclear waste: it needs to be dealt with carefully. Sometimes it needs to be buried way, way out of town. And sometimes it should never be uncovered at all.

It gives me a deep comforting sense that Things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.

I knew that the deepest of tragedies was simple: to love, and not to be loved in return.

An adult woman should not be so possessive of her own birthday that she begrudges her friends the chance to get married on the same day.

The monsters are in your own head

I cannot be content with less than heaven.

I hope I can write toward my interests. But poets should be afraid of too fluidly responding to what they're interested in.

The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.