To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome.

If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be, you do.

Dispel not, the happy delusions of children.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights; nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.

After all, poets shouldn't be their own interpreters and shouldn't carefully dissect their poems into everyday prose; that would mean the end of being poets. Poets send their creations into the world, it is up to the reader, the aesthetician, and the critic to determine what they wanted to say with their creations.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.