... good and evil are so interwoven in life that every good, traced up far enough, is found to involve evil. This is the great mystery of life.

the nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.

politicians ... turn patriotism into shopkeeping and their own interest - men who care far more for who governs us than for how we are governed.. And what will be the end of such ways? I will tell you. We shall have a Democracy that will be the reign of those who know the least and talk the loudest.

But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.

All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.

Old age is the verdict of life.