“A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude.”
“Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.”
“Rise like Lions after slumber in unvanquishable number.”
“The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance.”
“Nought may endure but mutability.”
“Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.”
“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
“Talent is hit-or-miss; genius hits a target no one else can see.”
“The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.”
“Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.”
“Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.”
“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
“A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.”
“Compassion is the basis of morality.”
“The world is my representation.”
“In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.”
“The endeavor to persevere in one’s being is the first and only foundation of virtue.”
“The more we understand particular things, the more we understand God.”
“Desire is the very essence of man.”
“Peace is not an absence of war; it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.”