Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.

As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.

It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.

Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief - your time for joy will come, believe me.

Write for pleasure and publish for money.

My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?

Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.