"Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot!A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot,Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again!The beggars have changed places but the lash goes on."

"Speak, speak, for underneath the cover thereThe sand is running from the upper glass,And when the last grain's through, I shall be lost."

"Swift has sailed into his rest;Savage indignation thereCannot lacerate his breast."

"Now I know that twenty centuries of stony sleep were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, and what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"

"The fascination of what's difficultHas dried the sap out of my veins, and rentSpontaneous joy and natural contentOut of my heart."

"he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.'"

"Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses."

"Did that play of mine send outCertain men the English shot?"

"Out of our quarrels with others we make rhetoric. Out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry."

"A picture is worth a thousand words."

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."

"The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains"

"The only victory over love is flight."

"Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost."

"My downfall raises me to infinite heights."

"When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary."

"The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies."

"The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world"

"Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack."

"An army marches on its stomach."

"A Constitution should be short and obscure"

"The only conquests which are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves."

"I made all my generals out of mud."

"Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress."