To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence - - this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.

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

Since you know me and my destiny only too well, you probably also know what attracts me to all unfortunate people.

Whoever makes it a rule to test action by thought, thought by action, cannot falter, and if he does, will soon find his way back to the right road.

Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay.

Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments.

The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.