Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive.

Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.

To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome.

Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through.

To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.

There is no remedy but love for the great superiority of others

The question "From where does the poet get it?" addresses only the what, nobody learns anything about the how when asking that question.