"I am not a Caesar, nor a Borgia, nor a Napoleon. I am only a poet."

"I have a great passion for horses, and I think they are much better than men."

"If people are to live, why die? And are our carcasses worth raising? I hope, if mine is, I shall have a better pair of legs than I have moved on these two-and-twenty years, or I shall be sadly behind …"

"If she had been a few years younger, what a fool she would have made of me had she thought it worth her while."

"I wish he would explain his explanation."