To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them - that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being.

No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult.

I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him.

The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.

One is never deceived; one deceives oneself.