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.

Where confidence is wanting, the most beautiful flower in the garland of love is missing.

I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and its activity will continue through eternity.

The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with religion.

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