“a man only knows what he's experienced”

“The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.”

“Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be.”

“The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going”

“The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.”

“A man is what he thinks about all day long”

“A man must consider what rich realms he abdicates when he becomes a conformist”