Everything great and intelligent is in the minority

The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.

Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.

Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.