What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.

All one needs to do is declare oneself free and one will immediately feel dependent. If you dare to declare yourself dependent, you feel independent.

Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.

As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.

Rash combat oft immortalizes man; if he should fall, he is renowned in song; but after-ages reckon not the ceaseless tears which the forsaken woman sheds. Poets tell us not of the many nights consumed in weeping, or of the dreary days wherein her anguished soul vainly yearns to call her loved one back.