“Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake.”

“Opposition is true Friendship.”

“The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.”

“When i tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.”

“That which can be made Explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.”

“What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.”

“O Rose, thou art sick.The invisible wormThat flies in the nightIn the howling stormHas found out thy bedOf crimson joy,And his dark secret loveDoes thy life destroy.”