Unattainable wishes are often "pious." This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled.

n every exalted joy, there mingles a sense of gratitude.

We can be wise from goodness and good from wisdom.

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.

Most imitators attempt the inimitable.

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.

We ask the poet: 'What subject have you chosen?' instead of: 'What subject has chosen you?