I live! Red life boils in my veins, earth yields beneath my feet, in the glow of love I embrace trees and statues, and they live in my embrace. Every woman is to me the gift of a world. I revel in the melody of her countenance, and with a single glance of my eye I can enjoy more than others with their every limb through all their lives.

No compass has ever been invented for the high seas of matrimony.

Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.

Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.

First, I thought, almost despairing, This must crush my spirit now; Yet I bore it, and am bearing- Only do not ask me how.

I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.

There is only one writer in whom I find something that reminds me of the directness of style which is found in the Bible. It is Shakespeare.