So a maiden, whilst she remains untouched, so long is she dear to her own; when she has lost her chaste flower with sullied body, she remains neither lovely to boys nor dear to girls.

Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.

I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

But you shall not escape my iambics.

Who now travels that dark path from whose bourne they say no one returns. [Lat., Qui nunc it per iter tenebricosum Illue unde negant redire quemquam.]

I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power.

Godlike the man who sits at her side, who watches and catches that laughter which (softly) tears me to tatters: nothing is left of me, each time I see her.

Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.

Nothing is more silly than silly laughter.

Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.

Nothing exists except through human consciousness

If God gave Dad Alzheimer’s, He’s got to understand when Dad forgets what church he belongs to.

Communism is what happens when Socialists realize that they want complete control over every aspect of human life.

Her biggest fear was that Flynn would walk away before she could even start to worry about him not coming home.

Sometimes success is due less to ability than zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul.

I can't express how much admiration I have for women in general, who walk around in high heels, but, drag queens, oh my god.

Uncertainty in a leader is always magnified in the heart of the follower.

Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

[Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution.

I think that if past lives are real then we have been lovers in every single one of them. I've known you for a short time, but I feel like I've known you forever.