Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
Love which economizes is never true love.
Nothing is so discreet as a young face, for nothing is less mobile; it has the serenity, the surface smoothness, and the freshnessof a lake. There is no character in women's faces before the age of thirty.