The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault.

Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.

Some people spend the day in complaining of a headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.

Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.

He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered.