Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

A woman in the depths of despair proves so persuasive that she wrenches the forgiveness lurking deep in the heart of her lover. This is all the more true when that woman is young, pretty, and so decollete as to emerge from the neck of her gown in the costume of Eve.

I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.

Glory is the sunshine of the dead

Necessity is often the spur to genius.

A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage.

Carelessness in dressing is moral suicide.