Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?

There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines.

What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.

As our inclinations, so our opinions.

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

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