The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share.

Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.

Love is the only way on which even the dim-witted reaches certain heights.

The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

Thinking is seeing.... Every human science is based on deduction, which is a slow process of seeing by which we work up from the effect to the cause; or, in a wider sense, all poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.