What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a moment.

Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.

The world's history is the world's judgment.

Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.

Rigor pushed too far is sure to miss its aim, however good, as the bow snaps that is bent too stiffly.

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.