It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.

A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.

To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.

No fruit on earth can rival the cemetery's crop

Oh, what company good poets are!