“And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand,The hand that held the steel:For only blood can wipe out blood,And only tears can heal”

“When a golden girl can winPrayer from out the lips of sin,When the barren almond bears,And a little child gives away its tears,Then shall all the house be stillAnd peace come to Canterville.”

“And her sweet red lips on these lips of mineBurned like the ruby fire setIn the swinging lamp of a crimson shrine,Or the bleeding wounds of the pomegranate,Or the heart of the lotus drenched and wetWith the spilt-out blood of the rose-red wine.”

“Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.”

“Only love can keep anyone alive...”

“I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.”

“The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.”