If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground.
Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.
The day that a woman who is passing before you sheds a light upon you as she goes, you are lost, you love. You have then but one thing to do: to think of her so earnestly that she will be compelled to think of you.
A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence.
Inspiration and genius -one and the same.
It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.