The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

There is no remedy but love for the great superiority of others

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

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

It is quite beyond me how anyone can believe God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not directly reveal to us our relationship to it, if our hearts fail to tell us what we owe ourselves and others, we shall assuredly not learn it from books, which are at best designed but to give names to our errors.

I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.

Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.