We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Sometimes I don't understand how another can love her, is allowed to love her, since I love her so completely myself, so intensely, so fully, grasp nothing, know nothing, have nothing but her!

There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).

While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.

Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.

If you don't feel it, you'll never achieve it.

And I have again observed, my dear friend, in this trifling affair, that misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events, the two latter are of less frequent occurrence.