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

Look at the sun! It’s dry, it’s dead, it needs a drink, it wants blood! And I’ll give it blood!

Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is.

Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.

Taxes are a universal burden in moral as well as in civil life. There is not a pleasure, social or otherwise, which is not assessed by fate at its full value!

Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.

Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher.