“Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.”
“It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.”
“Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.”
“In nature there is nothing melancholy”
“In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.”
“Great men are almost always bad men.”