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

As soon as you are in a social setting, you better take away the key to the lock of your heart and pocket it; those who leave thekey in the lock are fools.

Truth is a torch, but a terrific one; therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.

Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.

Nothing is more consonant with Nature than that she puts into operation in the smallest detail that which she intends as a whole.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.