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.

God is the place where I do not remember the rest.

It is easier to be mistaken about the true than the beautiful.

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

Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.

Without duty, life is soft and boneless.

Fear loves the idea of danger.