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

Beware of the virtue which a man boasts is his.

To have and not to give is often worse than to steal.

Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.

If there be a faith that can move mountains, it is faith in one's own power.

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

One has to do good in order for it to exist in the world.