Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.

If one hour's work is enough to govern France, four minutes is all that is needed for Italy. There is no nation more easily frightened; even its poetic imagination predisposes it to fear, and they look upon power as on an image that fills them with terror.

Love is admiring with the heart. And admiring is loving with the mind.

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

Nature, who permits no two leaves to be exactly alike, has given a still greater diversity to human minds. Imitation, then, is a double murder; for it deprives both copy and original of their primitive existence.

One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.

The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.