What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

No limit, no definition, may restrict the range or depth of the human spirit's passage into its own secrets or the world's.

Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.

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.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

He who moves not forward, goes backward.