The touch of time does more than the club of Hercules.

People marry through a variety of other reasons, and with varying results: but to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.

There is no gift more great than love.

While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction.

The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by.

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

The desire to write perfectly of beautiful happenings is, as the saying runs, old as the hills — and as immortal.