Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.

Two soldiers and a villain are enough to blow up the rights of the citizens.

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

I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never reverses its course.

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

The prince exults whomever he selects as his consort, but the queen, rather than elevating the subject of her choice, humiliates him as a man. By all that is right, a man is not intended to be the husband of his wife, but a woman is to be her husband's wife.

At certain times, men regard poetry merely as a bright flame, but to women it was, and always will be, a warm fire.