A man may welcome his beloved with circumstance, but a woman's love and her concern for his well-being are discreet.

To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.

The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.

He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.

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.

Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel.

The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!