No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart.

Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.

What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?

Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.

Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.

The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner; these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives

Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.