Very few people love others for what they are; rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.

Live dangerously and you live right.

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.

The people rate strength before everything.

Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes it up.

The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal.

Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.