Treat a person as they are, they will remain so. Treat a person the way that person can be and is capable of being and that person will become as he or she can be and should be.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.

The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament.

The world is full of contradiction.

Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.