The real genres: good and bad.

When receiving an order, many servants repeat their "yes" numerous times, especially the lazy ones.

Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.

Beauty satisfies the senses completely and at the same time uplifts the soul. That which gratifies the senses is pleasant, and that which uplifts the soul without being sensual in the least is good, true, right, anything you like, but not beautiful.

I would love to be able to write a tragedy in my imagination--it would turn into a masterpiece.

No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.

Just as the queen bee, the highest-ranking, peerless creature of her hive, is surrounded by lowly drones to please her, whereas the workers produce honey, the same way is the one who sits on the throne an equal only to himself, and no one's companion.