There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.

Those who begin by burning books will end by burning people.

Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.

It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.

The beauteous eyes of the spring's fair night With comfort are downward gazing.

All I really want is enough to live on, a little house in the country... and a tree in the garden with seven of my enemies hanging in it.

At noon I feel as though I could devour all the elephants of Hindostan, and then pick my teeth with the spire of Strasburg cathedral; in the evening I become so sentimental that I would fain drink up the Milky Way without reflecting how indigestible I should find the little fixed stars, and by night there is the Devil himself broke loose in my head and no mistake.