People expect me to be dark and gloomy then write that I'm a jolly chap and after all that is what I am. I think it's a case of an absolute romantic naivety that there should be a parallel between the work and the artist.
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
As reason is a rebel to faith so passion is a rebel to reason.
To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy.
Life itself is but the shadow of death and souls departed but the shadows of...
We all labor against our own cure for death is the cure of all diseases.
All things are artificial for nature is the art of God.
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude and the society of...
Let age not envy draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
