The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.

Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.

To love is to choose.

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

The Holy Scriptures praise the dew of the morning and the dew of the evening; ros matutinum, ros serotinum! Happy is he who possesses the gift of tears! when young, he will bear flowers; when old, fruit!

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.