Every man's happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.

Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don't have far to go, either.

Art, if one employs this term in the broad sense that includes poetry within its realm, is an art of creation laden with ideals, located at the very core of the life of a people, defining the spiritual and moral shape of that life.

Illness isn't the only thing that spoils the appetite.

I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor's nature.

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.