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

Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.

Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.

If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

What are the characteristics of today's world so that one may recognize it by them?" It pays pensions and borrows money: credit and monuments.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.