To see the world is to judge the judges.

In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.

The voice is a human sound which nothing inanimate can perfectly imitate. It has an authority and an insinuating property which writing lacks. It is not merely so much air, but air modulated and impregnated with life.

Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

There are some heads which have no windows, and the day can never strike from above; nothing enters from heavenard.

We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love.