The mad is either insane or he is composing verses.
Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start
He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]
The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had been endowed with.
I want to live, and die with you.
The same night awaits us all.