It is only kindred griefs that draw forth our tears, and each weeps really for himself.

God will pardon: That's His business.

I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.

Lyrical poetry is much the same an every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time.

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but less by assimilation than by friction.

Thought is invisible nature.

The sea appears all golden. Beneath the sun-lit sky.