We don't have two hearts, one for animals and one for humans ; we have one heart or we don't have any.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.

The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.

Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.

Eternity is so certain and so terrible that a thousand lives would not suffice to prepare for it.