The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man.

To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it.

Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.

Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.

Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features

Tenderness is the rest of passion.