You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man.
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty.
To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.
Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.