A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

One believes others will do what he will do to himself.

A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

Nothing awakens a reminiscence like an odor

The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.