The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode.

The poet's body even is not fed like other men's, but he sometimes tastes the genuine nectar and ambrosia of the gods, and lives adivine life. By the healthful and invigorating thrills of inspiration his life is preserved to a serene old age.

Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.

The most attractive sentences are not perhaps the wisest, but the surest and soundest.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.

Such is always the pursuit of knowledge. The celestial fruits, the golden apples of the Hesperides, are ever guarded by a hundred-headed dragon which never sleeps, so that it is an Herculean labor to pluck them.