When people say, "I've told you fifty times," They mean to scold, and very often do; When poets say, "I've written fifty rhymes," They make you dread that they'll recite them too; In gangs of fifty, thieves commit their crimes; At fifty love for love is rare, 't is true, but then, no doubt, it equally as true is, a good deal may be bought for fifty Louis.

No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!

Oh who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried.

What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.

The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.

A change came o'er the spirit of my dream.

It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.