Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World

If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be, you do.

There is no way to face the great advantages of another person than through love.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

There is but one poetry,--true poetry.

There is no outward sign of true courtesy that does not rest on a deep moral foundation.

To me the external existence of my soul is proved from my idea of activity. If I work incessantly until my death, nature will give me another form of existence when the present can no longer sustain my spirit.