"Wit is more necessary than beauty and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it."

"Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures."

"Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen."

"A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep."

"If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise."

"The best vision is insight."