Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.

At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly.

It is always a sign of an unproductive time when it concerns itself with petty and technical aspects [in philology], and likewiseit is a sign of an unproductive person to pursue such trifles.

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

People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.

If you are convinced of a matter, you must take sides or you don't deserve to succeed.

Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.