The earth is a great piece of stupidity.

My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley.

A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources - The Bible, Homer, Shakespeare.... The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before Shakespeare.

I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.

Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.