It's actually the spirit helping the spirit; it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.

Prose talks and poetry sings.

Chance arrives unannounced. It emerges, and when it leaves, we are lucky if the changes it has produced are only external.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.

The graceful flowers of innocence are more valuable than the laurel crown of fame.

Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.