As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of.... In literature, as in allthings, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false.

The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.

Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.

The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world.

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.

To think of shadows is a serious thing.

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.