Passion is born deaf and dumb.

God reveals Himself, unfailingly, to the solitary, thoughtful seeker

They [twin beds] are the most stupid, the most perfidious, and the most dangerous invention in the world. Shame and a curse on who thought of them.

It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance.

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.

All human power is a compound of time and patience.