The plot! The plot! What kind of plot could a poet possibly provide that is not surpassed by the thinking, feeling reader? Form alone is divine.

The state has no religion for the simple reason that it has each and everyone.

The prince exults whomever he selects as his consort, but the queen, rather than elevating the subject of her choice, humiliates him as a man. By all that is right, a man is not intended to be the husband of his wife, but a woman is to be her husband's wife.

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

Why does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks like a flower bed.

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

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.