If I love you, what business is it of yours?

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

Long were the days of pain I have spent within its walls, and long were the nights of aloneness; and who can depart from his pain and his aloneness without regret?

I will make you shorter by the head.

Love may laugh at locksmiths, but he has a profound respect for money bags.

What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.