The craving for a delicate fruit is pleasanter than the fruit itself.

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

What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

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

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.

The working of revolutions misleads me no more; it is as necessary to our race as its waves to the stream, that it may not be a stagnant marsh. Ever renewed in its forms, the genius of humanity blossoms.

The craving for a delicate fruit is pleasanter than the fruit itself.