Heraclitus was an opponent of all democratic parties.

He who recites dramatic works makes discoveries about his own character.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.

A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.