Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated.

Time is my estate: to Time I'm heir.

And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.

If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.

What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.