Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

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

To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.

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

Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger

It is open to question whether the highly individualized characters we find in Shakespeare are perhaps not detrimental to the dramatic effect. The human being disappears to the same degree as the individual emerges.

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