When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.

When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.

Pity, but never love bestows kind words upon the slave.

Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?

What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.

The graceful flowers of innocence are more valuable than the laurel crown of fame.

Compilers resemble gluttonous eaters who devour excessive quantities of healthy food just to excrete them as refuse.