Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.

Men are joined by conviction, sundered by opinion.

Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of sleep.

The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault.

And step by step, along the path of life, There's nothing true but Heaven.

How circumscribed is woman's destiny!

Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.