“Love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden. ”

“Love is a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species”

“Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. ”

“If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god”

“As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical”

“A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense”