Collectors are happy people.

And I have again observed, my dear friend, in this trifling affair, that misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events, the two latter are of less frequent occurrence.

Solitude is fine when you are at peace with yourself and have something definite to do.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able to form some conception.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

There is a politeness of the heart; this is closely allied to love.