Great Throughts Treasury

"Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young."

"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye."

"Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded."

"For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow."

"I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse."

"I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind."

"If I had a device, it would be the true, the true only, leaving the beautiful and the good to settle matters afterwards as best they could."

"If you want to succeed, limit yourself."

"In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived."

"Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters."

"One is always of his age and especially he who least appears so"

"Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are."

"There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age."