Necessity is often the spur to genius.

Six weeks with a fever is an eternity.

Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen.

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers.

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

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.