Appearance rules the world.

Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to that reality.

In love, Jealousy is the great exaggerator.

Secrecy is for the happy,--misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil; under a thousand suns it dares act openly.

It is at the approach of extreme danger when a hollow puppet can accomplish nothing, that power falls into the mighty hands of nature, of the spirit giant-born, who listens only to himself, and knows nothing of compacts.

If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.

Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.