An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.
How unreliable is the woman caught being faithful! Today she is faithful to you, tomorrow to another.
A poem is good until one knows by whom it is.
I have decided many a stylistic problem first by my head, then by heads or tails.
Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations should hold it to their ears like a seashell in which there is the music of an ocean of mud.