Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.

It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

It doesn't behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress.

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

It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily met with; truth is hid in great depths, the way to seek does not appear to all the world.

People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.