“To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.”

“All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.”

“All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.”

“Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.”

“I unsettle all things.”

“The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide. Him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him because he did not need it.”

“Life consists of what man is thinking about all day.”