There is but one poetry,--true poetry.

There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights; nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.

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

A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.

If one doesn't know one's own country, one doesn't have standards for foreign countries.

If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.

One can't dull a project better than by discussing it repeatedly.