"As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical"
"Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied"
"All things must change to something new, to something strange"
"All things come round to him who will but wait"
"Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are"
"The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts"
"The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy"
"Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose"
"Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions"
"The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain"
"Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind"
"Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads"
"Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him"
"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done"
"Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues"
"That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain"
"It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong"
"However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure"
