When you want success as badly as you want the air, then you will get it. There is no other secret of success.

The heart of the person before you is a mirror. See there your own form.

Such as thy words are, such will thy affections be esteemed; and such will thy deeds be as thy affections and such thy life as thy deeds.

If you want to be wrong then follow the masses.

One ought not to return injustice, nor do evil to anybody in the world, no matter what one may have suffered from them.

If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are beauty and virtue the world over.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.