Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.

No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require.

Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.

I understand the phrase "Honor the Women" all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.

I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never reverses its course.

The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.

As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.