Stupidity is without anxiety.

Children can scarcely be fashioned to meet with our likes and our purpose. Just as God did us give them, so must we hold them and love them, nurture and teach them to fullness and leave them to be what they are.

A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-lantern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.

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.

Yes, I have finally arrived to this Capital of the World! I now see all the dreams of my youth coming to life... Only in Rome is it possible to understand Rome.

A noble man is led by woman's gentle words.

There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.