Pretty women without religion are like flowers without perfume.

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

Ask me not what I have, but what I am.

The real madness probably is not another thing that the wisdom itself that, tired of discovering the shames of the world, has taken the intelligent resolution to become mad

Out of my great sorrows, I make little songs.

Everywhere that a great soul gives utterance to its thoughts, there also is a Golgotha.

The fountain of love is the rose and the lily, the sun and the dove.