If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.

I'd wish the government took honest people into consideration, it shows enough consideration for scoundrels.

Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.

Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me unfolds at thesame time. The hearts of how many heroes and poets may have been set on fire by Plutarch's biographies which now inspire me with their own and with borrowed flames!

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

A love that dies has never lived.

Never expect any recognition here--the system prohibits it. The cross is not affixed to the genius, no, the genius is affixed to the cross.