"The human soul has greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live."

"To die is nothing; but to live is dreadful."

"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools."

"When a man is in love, he is hardly a good judge of anything."

"Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the soul. It is an ardent, celestial, inextinguishable flame."