There is a politeness of the heart; this is closely allied to love.

Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.

What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours.

Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.

The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness; but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.