She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.

She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt

Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.

Friendship grows from a caring heart with sense and sensibilities.

The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.

The sensibility of man to trifles, and his insensibility to great things, indicates a strange inversion.

The heart that is soonest awake to the flowers Is always the first to be touched by the thorns.

Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility.

Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.

The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man.

If we had keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe.