It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

To have preferences, but not exclusions.

Can you really believe that a drop of urine is an infinity of monads, and that each of these has ideas, however obscure, of the universe as a whole?

But in this country it is necessary, now and then, to put one admiral to death in order to inspire the others to fight.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

We cannot wish for that we know not.