He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.

Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.

What has no shadow has no strength to live.

Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.

The true enemy of man is generalization.

The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.

The soul exceeds its circumstances.

The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.

In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.

When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.

This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.

No man does anything from a single motive.

I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Doing evil to avoid evil cannot be good.

Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.

Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation

The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. "Thou shalt not" is their characteristic formula.