“Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives”

“There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.”

“One must not trifle with love.”

“Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.”

“Hast thou found out, Voltaire, that it is bliss to die, And does thy hideous smile over thy bleached bones fly?”

“Christianity ruined emperors but saved peoples.”