“It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head”

“Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand”

“Let us, then, be what we are, and speak what we think, and in all things keep ourselves loyal to the truth”

“One man excels in eloquence, another in arms”

“As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.”

“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do”