Poets should be law-givers; that is, the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult, but should announce and lead the civil code, and the day's work.

Neither you nor the world knows what you can do until you have tried.

We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.

True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.

Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good player.

Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.

Only so much of life do I know as I have lived.