work is happiness. No one can take my work from me and therefore no one can take my happiness from me.

The Press nowadays is not a literary press; classic diction and brilliancy of style do not distinguish it by any means.

Patriotism is understood to be that virtue which consists in serving one's country; but in what way is this 'Patria' or country served by slaying its able bodied men in thousands?

Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!

There is no wealth but love.

Imagination is the supreme endowment of the poet and romanticist. It is a kind of second sight, which conveys the owner of it to places he has never seen, and surrounds him with strange circumstances of which he is merely the spiritual eyewitness.

What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.