I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished.

If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.

The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain.

Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.

The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?