How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.
Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow.
Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.