If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us.

A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.

I love the deep quiet in which I live and grow against the world and harvest what they cannot take from me by fire or sword.

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.