This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil.

It is only through the morning gate of the beautiful that you can penetrate into the realm of knowledge. That which we feel here as beauty we shall one day know as truth.

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

Obedience is the Christian's crown.

The dictates of the heart are the voice of fate.

Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.

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.