She knew that the horse, born to serve nobly, had waited in vain for someone noble to serve. His spirit knew that nobility had gone out of men.

And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his; she had him all to herself. But he must be made abstract first.

They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent.

If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night

Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.

Good God, what does it matter? If life is a tragedy, or a farce, or a disaster, or anything else, what do I care! Let life be what it likes. Give me a drink, that's what I want just now.

Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.