What is life without the radiance of love?

Most gladly would I give the blood-stained laurel for the first violet which March brings us, the fragrant pledge of the new-fledged year.

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

There are occasions when the general belief of the people, even though it be groundless, works its effect as sure as truth itself.

A beautiful soul has no other merit than its own existence.

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.

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.