Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

As for what I have done as a poet, I take no pride in whatever. Excellent poets have lived at the same time with me, poets more excellent lived before me, and others will come after me. But that in my country I am the only person who knows the truth in the difficult science of colors-of that, I say, I am not a little proud, and here have a consciousness of superiority to many.

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

The style of an author is a faithful copy of his mind.

How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action.

The solution of every problem is another problem

One must not criticize that which is common since it remains always the same.