New inventions can and will be made; however, nothing new can be thought of that concerns moral man. Everything has already been thought and said which at best we can express in different forms and give new expressions to.

Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing; it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain.

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

The web of this world is woven of Necessity and Chance. Woe to him who has accustomed himself from his youth up to find something necessary in what is capricious, and who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.

True love is love that stays constant for ever, whatever it's fortune; whether requited or scored, filled or sent empty away.

Do you want to live happily? Travel with two bags, one for giving, the other for receiving.

Sometimes I don't understand how another can love her, is allowed to love her, since I love her so completely myself, so intensely, so fully, grasp nothing, know nothing, have nothing but her!