Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.

A good preface must be the root and the square of the book at the same time.

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.

Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.

All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.

Poetry can be criticized only through poetry. A critique which itself is not a work of art, either in content as representation of the necessary impression in the process of creation, or through its beautiful form and in its liberal tone in the spirit of the old Roman satire, has no right of citizenship in the realm of art.