Who said “Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.”?

“All human activity is prompted by desire.”

“Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.”

“If you desire many things, many things will seem but a few.”

“Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.”

“O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire.”

“Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.”

“The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.”

“Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.”

“Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.”

“Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.”

“To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.”