Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion.

National literature does not mean much these days; now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten thearrival of that age.

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

The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal.

Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.