Man is a central creature between the animals, that is to say, the most perfect form, which unites the traits of all in the most complete epitome.

As the shadow in early morning, is friendship with the wicked; it dwindles hour by hour. But friendship with the good increases, like the evening shadows, till the sun of life sets.

Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.

Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself.

The savage who loves himself, his wife and child with quiet joy and glows with limited activity of his tribe as for his own life is in my opinion a more real being than that cultivated shadow who is enraptured with the shadow of the whole species

It is a hard but good law of fate, that as every evil, so every excessive power, wears itself out.

A poet is the creator of the nation around him, he gives them a world to see and has their souls in his hand to lead them to that world.