Religions are not proved, are not demonstrated, are not established, are not overthrown by logic! They are of all the mysteries of nature and the hum….

Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!.

The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of o­ne spiritual empire, that is Muhammed. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be me….

Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless, Be happy while you may!.

Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless. He speeds; we pass away!.

Fiction is the microscope of truth..

Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive..

Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life..

Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection..

Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated..

Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness..

Unanimity is the mistress of strength..

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive..

A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness..

It is the qualities of the heart, not those of the face, that should attract us in women, because the former are durable, the latter transitory. So l….

There is a woman at the begining of all great things..

Ink is the transcript of thought..

We are earth's children, and life is the same in sap as in blood; all that the earth, our mother, feels and expresses to the eye by her form and aspe….

I am persuaded that if the brutes even--if the dog, the horse, the ox, the elephant, the bird, could speak, they would confess, that, at the bottom o….

Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages..

What mortal is there, over whose first joys and happiness does not break some storm, dispelling with its icy breath his fanciful illusions, and shatt….