Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity.

He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.

Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault.