We should treat children as God does us, who makes us happiest when He leaves us under the influence of innocent delusions.

You are, when all is done-just what you are.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose!

Whatever we think out, whatever we take in hand to do, should be perfectly and finally finished, that the world, if it must alter, will only have to spoil it; we have then nothing to do but unite the severed, to recollect and restore the dismembered.

There is nothing new on earth / For a person who lives long and experiences much. / In my years of youthful wandering / I have seen crystallized people.

He only fears men who does not know them, and he who avoids them will soon misjudge them.