Misery travels free through the whole world!
Truth is more than a dream and a song.
Foster the beautiful, and every hour thou tallest new flowers to birth.
An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist.
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.
A beautiful soul has no other merit than its own existence.