This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World.

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

The perfect orchestration of the symphony of life is one of the Creator's greatest and most beautiful miracles.

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Clinton had displayed his lifelong tendency to make enemies of all his superiors, who never seemed to appreciate his advice as much as he thought it deserved.

Dream your dreams and go all out there to achieve it.

Germany and Austria have had positive experiences with strong states and a cooperative democracy. I am certain that this example could be helpful in a constructive debate on the Catalonian situation.

A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.

The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

I think there is value in having practising scientists as leaders of research institutions.

May my eyes never see and my feet never take me to a society where half the people are held in silence.

There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking.