Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!

There is a great difference, whether the poet seeks the particular for the sake of the general or sees the general in the particular. From the former procedure there ensues allegory, in which the particular serves only as illustration, as example of the general. The latter procedure, however, is genuinely the nature of poetry; it expresses something particular, without thinking of the general or pointing to it.

Whoever makes it a rule to test action by thought, thought by action, cannot falter, and if he does, will soon find his way back to the right road.

To make an epoch in the world, two conditions are manifestly essential-a good head and a great inheritance.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

All of us, just because we are able to talk, also believe we are able to talk about language.

One must not criticize that which is common since it remains always the same.