The thought of death leaves me in perfect peace, for I have a firm conviction that our spirit is a being of indestructible nature; it works on from eternity to eternity, it is like the sun, which though it seems to set to our mortal eyes, does not really set, but shines on perpetually.

Treat a person as they are, they will remain so. Treat a person the way that person can be and is capable of being and that person will become as he or she can be and should be.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.

The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.

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

A distracted existence leads us to no goal