Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.

A poet is a world enclosed in a man.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.

There is such a thing as the pressure of darkness.

Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647; but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach.

If God had intended that man should go backward, he would have given him eyes in the back of his head.