All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.

If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.

What Tarquin the Proud said in his garden with the poppy blooms was understood by the son but not by the messenger.

The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated

The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.

Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots.

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.