Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it.

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal.

With knowledge comes more doubt.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.