All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

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

One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.

There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.

All perishable is but an allegory.

When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie buried under the ruins of the churches, that have themselves crumbled together over them; we may fancy the life after death to be as a second life, into which man enters in the figure, or the picture or the inscription, and lives longer there than when he was really alive. But this figure also, this second existence, dies out too, sooner or later. Time will not allow himself to be cheated of his rights with the monuments of men or with themselves.

To have a positive religion is not necessary. To be in harmony with yourself and the universe is what counts, and this is possible without positive and specific formulation in words.