“There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.”

“Life is a festival only to the wise.”

“The ruin or blank, that we see when we look at nature is in our own eye...Love is as much its demand, as perception. Indeed neither can be perfect without the other.”

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”

“Only so much of life do I know as I have lived. ”

“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.”

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