It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.

Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.

With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.

Sad that our finest aspiration, Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away.

To love all ages yield surrender; But to the young it's raptures bring A blessing bountiful and tender- As storms refresh the fields of spring.

Cabbage soup and barley. They're Russia's national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.

Play interests me very much," said Hermann: "but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous.