The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
he who gives quickly gives twice / in nothing so much as in a letter.
War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.
The cynics in life are the people who are always trying to do things for people who don't want things done for them.
Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.
The power of the visible is the invisible.