And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and said to himself over and over again that he was the most miserable of men, I give you permission to throw me head-first into the sea.

Ask a toad what is beauty....; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat head, a yellow belly and a brown back.

He who is involved in ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for reality, and his own imagination for prophesy, is a fanatical novice of great hope and promise, and will soon advance to the higher stage and kill men for the love of God.

Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.

my soul is the mirror of the universe, and my body is its frame

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.