A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

The man-at-arms is the only man.

Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.

Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.

Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.

It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.