The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.

Prose talks and poetry sings.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.

How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we contemplate the goals for which itstrives.

Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.

Why does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks like a flower bed.