"A beautiful woman like eyes, and a..." - Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

“In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it!”

“This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I looked on, unmoved, at battles which decided the future of nations. Tearless, I had given orders which brought death to thousands. Yet here I was stirred, profoundly stirred, stirred to tears. And by what? By the grief of one dog. Napoleon Bonaparte, on finding a dog beside the body of his dead master, licking his face and howling, on a moonlit field after a battle. Napoleon was haunted by this scene until his own death.”

“The first method is that of a schemer and leads only to mediocre results; the other method is the path of genius and changes the face of the world.”

“That's how I always want to remember my time with you. Like a pure white light, breathtaking to behold.”

“Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.”

“You'd be so lean, that blast of JanuaryWould blow you through and through. Now, my fair'st friend,I would I had some flowers o' the spring that mightBecome your time of day.”

“The lover never despairs.For a committed heart everything is possible.”

“I think what we lack isn't science, but poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize”

“I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray, I hear it in the deep heart's core.”