If you're familiar with a principle you don't have to be familiar with all of its applications.

Each reader discovers for himself that, with respect to the simpler features of nature, succeeding poets have done little else than copy his similes.

My life is like a stroll upon the beach.

Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.

In the winter, warmth stands for all virtue.

Faith never makes a confession.

It is a momentous fact that a man may be good, or he may be bad; his life may be true, or it may be false; it may be either a shame or a glory to him. The good man builds himself up; the bad man destroys himself.