Any trifle is enough to entertain two lovers.
There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He acts as though the others were his peers.
It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation.
A noble man is led by woman’s gentle words.
A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.
The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their feelings bare, Them have men always burnt and crucified.
The spirit from which we act is the principal matter.
Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light.
Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another.
People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were.
Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you’ll never manage to button up.
At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly.
If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.
Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men.
The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal.
Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.
On all the peaks lies peace.
Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.
Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.
If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question.