Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes it up.

Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.

Since you know me and my destiny only too well, you probably also know what attracts me to all unfortunate people.

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

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.