Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.

A pious woman's neighbor, a philanthropist's child, a liberal's servant--these three have a hard life.

Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills.

I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.

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.

A love that dies has never lived.

A person who looks different all the time frightens me. Only one animal changes its skin: the snake.