“The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.”

“All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.”

“Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.”

“What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?”

“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”

“So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.”

“The splendid thingabout falling apartsilently...is thatyou can start overas many timesas you like.”