“You wish to sail a ship up stream by lighting a fire under its decks, I have no time for such nonsense.”

“You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense.”

“I hope before long to press you in my arms and shall shower on you a million burning kisses as under the Equator.”

“If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.”

“I have seen only yoU, I have admired only yoU, I desire only You”

“As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.”

“In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.”