“Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.”

“Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.”

“We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. ”

“Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.”

“Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.”

“A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.”

“More than ambition, more than ability, it is rules that limit contribution; rules are the lowest common denominator of human behavior. They are a substitute for rational thought.”