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.

Creeds matter very little... The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label.

I have followed after the truth, across this windy planet upon which every person is nourished by one or another lie.

Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger.

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

At all events, I do not mean to leave it unaltered.