What I need is a woman who is something, anything: either very beautiful or very kind or in the last resort very wicked; very witty or very stupid, but something.

Repartee is altogether a natural endowment, and is the lightning of the mind.

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

There are temptations more attractive than angels. Liberty, Patriotism, the good of humanity – words like that are the silver scales of the Tempter’s flaming wings

I cannot help it - in spite of myself, infinity torments me.

Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives

The mouth keeps silent to hear the heart speak.