Our poetry emulates the recent progress in military strategy: Our army's strength is the foot soldiers.

Why do villains have so much influence? Because the honest people are terribly dense.

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

A man may welcome his beloved with circumstance, but a woman's love and her concern for his well-being are discreet.

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.

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

Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them butonce they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.