All loves should be simply stepping stones to the love of God. So it was with me; and blessed be his name for his great goodness and mercy.

If there is a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress of humanity toward perfection.

The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.

Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality.

For the poet is a light winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses and the mind is no longer with him. When he has not attained this state he is powerless and unable to utter his oracles.

The proud man is forsaken of God.