I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.

Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.

Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.

I am in the night. There is a being who has gone away and carried the heavens with her. Oh! to be laid side by side in the same tomb, hand clasped in hand, and from time to time, in the darkness, to caress a finger gently, that would suffice for my eternity.

You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.

Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them?

The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions.