If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'!

Several classical sayings that one likes to repeat had quite a different meaning from the ones later times attributed to them.

To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.

What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

All men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself.

Everything great and intelligent is in the minority