The rose is wont with pride to swell, and ever seeks to rise.

Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life.

National literature does not mean much these days; now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten thearrival of that age.

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

Religion is not in want of art; it rests on its own majesty.

The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet.

With little wit and ease to suit them, They whirl in narrow circling trails, Like kittens playing with their tails.