Every noble work is at first impossible.

They only are wise who know that they know nothing.

A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.

Every poet, be his outward lot what it may, finds himself born in the midst of prose; h e has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.

Laughter means sympathy.