There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.

Performing on a stool, we've got a sight to make you drool, seven virgins and a mule, keep it cool, keep it cool.

What matters most is not what is behind us or before us, but what is within us.

The world is always childish, and with each new gewgaw of a revolution or new constitution that it finds, thinks it shall never cry any more.

The flowers talk when the wind blows over them.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

Everything has its price - and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained... it is impossible to get anything without this price.