I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit

When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with. I gave you eternity in a single moment, strength of the mountains in one clasp of your arms, and the volume of all the seas in one impulse of your soul.

Paradoxes are the only truths.

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

I want to be all used up when I die.

A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it.