Genius in the poet, like the nomad of Arabia, ever a wanderer, still ever makes a home where the well or the palm-tree invites it to pitch the tent. Perpetually passing out of himself and his own positive circumstantial condition of being into other hearts and into other conditions, the poet obtains his knowledge of human life by transporting his own life into the lives of others.

Vanity calculates but poorly on the vanity of others; what a virtue we should distil from frailty, what a world of pain we should save our brethren, if we would suffer our own weakness to be the measure of theirs.

Poverty is relative, and, therefor not ignoble.

Our very wretchedness grows dear to us when suffering for one we love.

To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: Leave no stone unturned.

Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.

At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue.