A flower blossoms for its own joy.

Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!

Placerea este testul naturii, semnul ei aprobator.

It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.

The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

Art persists, it timelessly continues.

My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the power of love. I am going to see if I cannot make the bitter warders sweet by the intensity of the love I bear you. I have had moments when I thought it would be wise to separate. Ah! Moments of weakness and madness! Now I see that would have mutilated my life, ruined my art, broken the musical chords which make a perfect soul. Even covered with mud I shall praise you, from the deepest abysses I shall cry to you. In my solitude you will be with me.