We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.

The spirit from which we act is the principal matter.

Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.

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

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.

Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.