É clássico aquilo que persiste como rumor mesmo onde predomina a atualidade mais incompatível.

The Biblical language was so deeply embedded in the great man's mind that it became his normal way of speaking.

The thought of what America would be likeIf the Classics had a wide circulationTroubles my sleep (Cantico del Sole)

But we must stem the tide of malice, and pour into the wounded bosoms of each other the balm of sisterly consolation.

Esser santo è un'eccezione; esser giusto è la regola. Sbagliate, mancate, peccate, ma siate giusti.

She pronounced the word married as if her voice caressed it. It seemed a rustling covert leading to enchanted glades.

Nothing is Lie until you get to know the truth, as nothing is false in Dream until you get to know that i'm Dreamer.

The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.

He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been formerly

Once upon a time there was a little prince who lived on a planet scarcely bigger than himself and who had need for a friend.

A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe, a book on a par with ancient talismans.

When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.

If the spark doesn't come, that's a pity; but we do not read the classics out of duty or respect, but only out of love.

Trouble me no more about her. Hereafter she is only my sister in name: not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.

I have a Greek-American friend who named her daughter "Nike" and is often asked why she chose to name her offspring after a sneaker.