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

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!

Prose talks and poetry sings.

How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.

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.

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