How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.

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

Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.

Why does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks like a flower bed.

Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.

People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.

You say I'm small? I certainly can relate, although it is a matter of perspective. The distance is deceptive, my friend, you standtoo low.