"Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.'..." - Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The freedom of poetic license.”

“No man in his senses will dance.”

“The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart.”

“Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.”

“Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.”

“His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.”

“Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue but moody and dull melancholy, kinsman to grim and comfortless despair.”

“I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation; nor the musician's, which is fantastical; nor the courtier's, which is proud; not the soldier's which is ambitious; nor the lawyer's, which is politic; nor the lady's, which is nice; nor the lover's, which is all these: but it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, which, by often rumination, wraps me in a most humorous sadness.”

“So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!”