Any work looks wonderful to me except the one which I can do.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Men are too coarsely made for the delicacy of beautiful carriage and customs. It is not quite sufficient to good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

You have a place to live in this world which no other man can occupy; hence no competitors.

Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.

He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.

The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple.