Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

It is a misfortune to pass at once from observation to conclusion, and to regard both as of equal value; but it befalls many a student.

Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language.

Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.

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

There is no way to face the great advantages of another person than through love.

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.