“What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?”

Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.

To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.

Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.

Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.

He would not stoop even to pick up the old manuscript I am going to seek with so much trouble and fatigue. And in truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.

For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.

Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.

Our passions are ourselves.

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.

It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.

So take a chance and never look back.

So take a chance and don’t ever look back.

No matter how many tears are running down her face, They’ll never stand a chance to the fire burning in her heart.

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of suffering people.

You are brave for giving love a second chance even after it caused you so much pain the first time.

Each sunrise is a new chance to make your life the one you always dream of.

The chance to see you again is 1 in 8 billion but so was the first time.

Chances we don’t take turn into dreams we will forget.