You see what stupid folk my publishers are; but they are all alike.

Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself

When mental sickness increases until it reaches the danger point, do not exhaust yourself by efforts to trace back to original causes. Better accept them as inevitable and save your strength to fight against the effects.

Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, the beautiful in art.

I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being.

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

Death must no longer be either the penalty for prosperity or the consolation of misery. God did not destine it to be either the punishment or the compensation for life.