...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.

Power is pleasure; and pleasure sweetens pain.

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

Painting gives the object itself; poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself; poetry suggests what exists out of it, in any manner connected with it.

A man who is determined never to move out of the beaten road cannot lose his way.

Sincerity has to do with the connexion between our words and thoughts, and not between our beliefs and actions.