Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt.
Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.
Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.