"It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it." — Voltaire

Tears are the silent language of grief.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.