A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative thought.

Our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters.

There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.

There is a field where all wonderful perfections of microscope and telescope fail, all exquisite niceties of weights and measures, as well as that which is behind them, the keen and driving power of the mind. No facts however indubitably detected, no effort of reason however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.

A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative thought.

The comedy of each age holds up a mirror to the people of that age, a mirror that is unique.

Love, however, cannot be forbidden. The more that flame is covered up, the hotter it burns. Also love can always find a way. It was impossible that these two whose hearts were on fire should be kept apart. (Pyramus and Thisbe)