To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power.

Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.

Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.

Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow.

Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discardsit with indifference.