Higher aims are in themselves more valuable, even if unfulfilled, than lower ones quite attained.

It makes no good to point the failures out without showing at the same time the remedy to address them.

The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannotbe explored.

Errors belong to libraries; truth, to the human mind.

The day is for mistake and error, sequence of time for success and carrying out. The one who anticipates is master of the day.

The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.

My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something that will afterwards give no pleasure.