The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness; but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.

Divide and command, a wise maxim; Unite and guide, a better.

Words are good, but there is something better. The best cannot be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be only understood and represented by the spirit.

Modern poets add a lot of water to their ink.

All that is alive tends toward color, individuality, specificity, effectiveness and opacity. All that is done with life inclines toward knowledge, abstraction, generality transfiguration and transparency.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace.

Rash combat oft immortalizes man; if he should fall, he is renowned in song; but after-ages reckon not the ceaseless tears which the forsaken woman sheds. Poets tell us not of the many nights consumed in weeping, or of the dreary days wherein her anguished soul vainly yearns to call her loved one back.