Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.

The most irascible person is most likely to become apathetic in dangerous situations.

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

What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.

I'd wish the government took honest people into consideration, it shows enough consideration for scoundrels.

From a distance the rushing of the torrent delights and uplifts us, but it rocks us in a flimsy boat, we are overwhelmed by despair. The same applies to danger.

Turning popular opinion upside down does not make an original.