Long is the road from conception to completion.

There is no protection against slander.

There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one's work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.

Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn't rule in love, you know.

Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.

All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.

We are all mortals, and each is for himself.