He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
Every historian discloses a new horizon.
The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.
No human creature can give orders to love.
Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.
