“A beautiful soul has no other merit than its own existence.”

Accursed be he who plays with the devil.

I follow my heart, for I can trust it.

I know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery.

Great souls endure in silence.

He who neglects the present moment throws away all he has.

When you are not happy with your life, always think that someone is happy simply because you exist.

The game of life looks cheerful when one carries a treasure safe in his heart.

Death is a mighty mediator. There all the flames of rage are extinguished, hatred is appeased, and angelic pity, like a weeping sister, bends with gentle and close embrace over the funeral urn.

Many a smiling face hides a mourning heart; but grief alone teaches us what we are.

There is no solitude in nature.

Nothing leads to good that is not natural.

We must bear what Heaven sends.

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

The history of the world is the world’s court of justice.

Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.

Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to that reality.

O this world is beautiful because of you! To love somebody means that we’re closer to God.

The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.

Everything which is good in life is dicey, including pretty girls.

The seventies is what I love. Soft, touchable beauty is what I love.

I am tired of not writing to you about how powerful it is, when you don’t need to feel beautiful to know that you are.

He was all dangerous eyes and beautiful lies, but I ached. for him to lie to me some more.

I guess I just believe in Trixie Mattel, and I believe in the work. I don’t think I’m better than anybody else, but I really think that I’m hilarious and beautiful.