A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.
But when all is said, the greatest art is to limit and isolate oneself.
What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.
Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.
There is but one poetry,--true poetry.
Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has marked out for him.