“Friendship is love without wings.”

“What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?”

“Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter,Sermons and soda water the day after.Man, being reasonable, must get drunk;The best of life is but intoxication:Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunkThe hopes of all men, and of every nation;Without their sap, how branchless were the trunkOf life's strange tree, so fruitful on occasion:But to return--Get very drunk; and whenYou wake with head-ache, you shall see what then.”

“In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.”

“Love in full life and length, not love ideal,No, nor ideal beauty, that fine name,But something better still, so very real...”

“Hate is by far the greatest pleasure; men love in haste, but detest in leisure. ”

“Many are poets, but without the name;For what is Poesy but to createFrom overfeeling Good or Ill; and aimAt an external life beyond our fate,And be the new Prometheus of new men,Bestowing fire from Heaven, and then, too late,Finding the pleasure given repaid with pain”