It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything. Most people are brave only in the dangers to which they accustom themselves, either in imagination or practice.

The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself.

The haughty woman who can stand alone, and requires no leaning-place in our hearts, loses the spell of her sex.

The astronomer who catalogues the stars cannot add one atom to the universe; the poet can call an universe from the atom.

Fate laughs at probabilities.

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it

Midnight, and love, and youth, and Italy!