It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.

For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears.

No limit, no definition, may restrict the range or depth of the human spirit's passage into its own secrets or the world's.

Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes it up.

This is what they all come to who exclusively harp on experience. They do not stop to consider that experience is only one half of experience.

Beware of her fair hair, for she excels All women in the magic of her locks; And when she winds them round a young man's neck, She will not ever set him free again.

If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost.