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

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.

Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.

Our poetry emulates the recent progress in military strategy: Our army's strength is the foot soldiers.

In the arts, foolhardiness is always harmful; even worse, however, is clumsiness.

Transcendence: that which transcends experience.

What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.