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

And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before.

People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.

You can put up with everything in this world except not with a long stretch of beautiful days.

I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it

One must keep repeating the Truth.

A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others