All is asleep: the army, the wind, and Neptune.

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.

Freedom comes from focus, focus brings freedom. Focus on fear you will always be in prison, focus on faith and is nothing the world can keep you knocked down.

Don’t be too scared to calculate risks

So much can be done, even when little is said.So little can be done, even when much is spoken.

The true legacy of 9-11 cannot be found among political leaders of the day, but in the citizen soldiers and public safety personnel who answered that day with courage and selflessness.

Always it is easier to pay homage to prophets than to heed the direction of their vision.

Three things are needed to educate the peasantry: schools, schools, and schools.

The cry of my body for completeness. That is a cry to you.

Then he almost but didn't say the two sentence he'd been meaning to say for years: part of me is made of glass, and also, I love you

And all the time he was enjoying his badness, hugging it to him as though it were a friend, and not caring a bit.

I'm totally applying assumed Creative Commons rights and ripping this post from Jason verbatim, since it says everything I want to.