All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.
Never look for the birds of this year in the nests of the last.
'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.
Woman's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool.
The wicked are always ungrateful.
Night is here. All is at rest. My eyes close in order to see without actually understanding the dream that flees before men infinite space; and I experience the languorous sensation produced by the mournful procession of my hopes.
The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him.
Music is for every single person that walks the planet.
I tried to please people instead of believing in my own strength, until the only thing I could do was walk away.