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

On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.

Great passions are incurable diseases.

Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?

The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.

If you want to reach the infinite, then explore every aspect of the finite.