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

Every solution of a problem is a new problem.

Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.

True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

So then the year is repeating its old story again. We are come once more, thank God! to its most charming chapter. The violets and the Mayflowers are as its inscriptions or vignettes. It always makes a pleasant impression on us, when we open again at these pages of the book of life.

Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

The happy do not believe in miracles.