Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

It is easier to make a lady of a peasant-girl than a peasant-girl of a lady.

The roots of the deepest love die in the heart, if not tenderly cherished.

To think what is true, to sense what is beautiful and to want what is good, hereby the spirit finds purpose of a life in reason.

It is a hard but good law of fate, that as every evil, so every excessive power, wears itself out.

The friend who holds up before me the mirror, conceals not my smallest faults, warns me kindly, reproves me affectionately, when I have not performed my duty, he is my friend, however little he may appear so. But if a man praises and lauds me, never reproves me, overlooks my faults, and forgives them before I have repented, he is my enemy, however much he may appear my friend.

A poet is the creator of the nation around him, he gives them a world to see and has their souls in his hand to lead them to that world.