If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.

Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.

Blood is a very special juice.

It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.

One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand.

Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.