Making poetry is like making love: you will never know if your own joy is shared.
Human love: vagabond breath, joyful nausea, real chimera!
Leana
The biggest objection to money is that money is stupid.
Émile-Auguste Chartier
The goods we enjoy always exercise our reason less than the evils we suffer.
Marquis of Maricá
True progressives are those who start from a deep respect for the past.
Ernest Renan
It does the friend good to hold him, and the enemy good to capture him.
Benjamin Franklin