Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.

A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.

Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.

If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in the distribution or wealth that chance had made, and who were, therefore, most worthy of indulgence.

As we have explained, in first love the soul is taken long before the body; later the body is taken long before the soul; sometimes the soul is not taken at all.

We are not loved by our friends for what we are; rather, we are loved in spite of what we are.

Here we stop. Upon the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, his finger on his lip.