“The passions are the only orators which always persuade.”

“Anger is a brief madness.”

“Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.”

“Anger was washed away in the river along with any obligation.”

“How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.”

“Smiles form the channels of a future tear.”

“Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its consummation.”

“…but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur, especially when one is all too highly conscious of the hope...”

“Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.”

“From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.”

“Irony takes nothing away from pathos.”

“Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or...”