The wounds of self-love turn incurable when the oxide of self-love gets into 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.

Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

Resignation is a daily suicide.

No frozen-hearted woman ever I laid eyes on but has made duty her religion.

Above all do not ask that justice be just: It is just, because it is justice. The idea of a just justice could have originated only in the brain of an anarchist.

All happiness depends on courage and work.