The void yields up nothing. You have to be a great poet to make it ring.
Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.
A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.
In morals, always do as others do; in art, never.
It is in the midst of the city that one writes the most inspiring pages about the country.
The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.