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.

I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.

People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.

I call architecture frozen music.

Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.

Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.

The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal.