Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely?

Sometimes, one gesture comprises an entire drama, the accent of one word ruins an entire existence, and the indifference of one glance kills the happiest passion.

There are words which cut like steel.

When an intelligent man reaches the point of inviting self-explanation and offers surrendering the key to his heart, he is assuredly riding a drunken horse.

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

There is something great and terrible about suicide.

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.