One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.

I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it

A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

When she sees the leaves fall, they raise no other idea in her mind than that winter is approaching.

All sects seem to me to be right in what they assert, and wrong in what they deny.

Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much

The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.