Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.

The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.

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

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

You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?

You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.

If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.