Everything transitory is but an image.

When I say to the Moment flying; 'Linger a while -- thou art so fair!' Then bind me in thy bonds undying, And my final ruin I will bear!

All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.

One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows.

Seize this very minute. What you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Begin it and the work will be completed

The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannotbe explored.

Ambition and love are the wings of great actions.