You don't have to travel around the world to understand that the sky is blue everywhere

If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.

The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.

Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.