Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred.

Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.

The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.

Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow.

The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.

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

No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.