Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.

When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.

I have observed that as long as one lives and bestirs himself, he can always find food and raiment, though it may not be of the choicest description.

If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.