Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

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.

Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and love.

What lies lurk in kisses.

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.

I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.

The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel - and all of them are right.