Tobacco is the plant that converts thoughts into dreams.

...We pray together, we are afraid together, and then we go to sleep. Even if Satan came into the house, no one would interfere. After all, what is there to fear in this house? There is always one with us who is the strongest. Satan may visit our house, but the good Lord lives here.

Art needs no spur beyond itself.

It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

History has its truth; and so has legend hers.

Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves. All human destiny is this dilemma. This dilemma, destruction or salvation, no fate proposes more inexorably than love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; coffin, too. The same sentiment says yes and no in the human heart. Of all the things God has made, the human heart is the one that sheds most light, and alas! most night.