"The world is an open book, full of the most rare and strange things, for him who has eyes to see."

"I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity."

"My whole life has been a struggle with the world."

"Every great poet is a teacher; I wish to be considered as a teacher, or as nothing."

"And the older a man gets, the more does he learn that he is not a man, but an ape."