When married one has to get into an argument once in a while since in this way one learns about the other.

There is but one poetry,--true poetry.

No matter what one says, you can recognize only those matters that are equal to you. Only rulers who possess extraordinary abilities will recognize and esteem properly extraordinary abilities in their subjects and servants.

We who didn't inherit political power nor are made to acquire riches like nothing better than that which expands and solidifies the power of the spirit.

Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.

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

Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!