All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

Many a truth is told in jest.

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

Me volví loco, con largos intervalos de horrible cordura.

To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.

all I loved, I loved alone.

I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.

The best things in life make you sweaty.

There are some secrets that do not permit themselves to be told.

To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.

Art is to look at not to criticize.

Invisible things are the only realities.

I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.