I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.
Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul’s possessions; to gain the esteem of others, we must only ever show our ugliest sides; this is how we keep ourselves on the common level
The principal thing in this world is to keep one's soul aloft.
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.