The paper is patient, but the reader is not.

The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautiful as that which presents to the attentive reader a half-hidden meaning.

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

It may be said that it is with our thoughts as with our flowers. Those whose expression is simple carry their seed with them; those that are double by their richness and pomp charm the mind, but produce nothing.

Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.

All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.

The dregs may stir themselves as they please; they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness.