Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism.

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.

Treat people the way they are and they will stay that way. Treat people the way they can become and they will become that way.

We love a girl for very different qualities than understanding. We love her for her beauty, her youth, her mirth, her confidingness, her character, with its faults, caprices and God knows what other inexpressible charms; but we do not love her understanding.

When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.

Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious.

The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.