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

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

“Anger is a brief madness.”

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

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

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

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

“Irony takes nothing away from pathos.”

“Smiles form the channels of a future tear.”

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

“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...”

“To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish.”