It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production to the pains of childbirth.

The crown of literature is poetry.

Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.

The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes...

For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.

As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue.

There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.