Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains.

The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.

The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.

Truth is contrary to our nature, not so error, and this for a very simple reason: truth demands that we should recognize ourselves as limited, error flatters us that, in one way or another, we are unlimited.

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

This world could not exist if it were not so simple. The ground has been tilled a thousand years, yet its powers remain ever the same; a little rain, a little sun, and each spring it grows green again.