Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?

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.

The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.

Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.

Do you think that it is possible to have a mere taste of commonness? Either one hates it or makes common cause with it.

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

Dilettantes appreciate the work, professors the master at the same time.