Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men.

A joy shared is a joy doubled.

One alone does not help, but rather he who unites with many at the right moment.

Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written; and of this but little is extant.

I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.

A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave.