It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
People demand freedom only when they have no power.
The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
Resolve and thou art free.
Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.
Love gives itself; it is not bought.
It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
Evil is only good perverted.
