“We live in our desires rather than in our achievements”

“The difficulty of life is in the choice.”

“So long as one does not despair so long as one doesn't look upon life bitterly things work out fairly well in the end.”

“Tis the last rose of summer. Left blooming alone.”

“Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.”

“After all there is but one race - humanity.”

“I Hear the sledges with the bells - Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All t...”

“Lend your ear then to this tutti of steeples; diffuse over the whole the buzz of half a million of human beings, the eternal murmur of the river, the infinite piping of the wind, the grave and dist...”

“If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.”