The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range.

Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.

Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original.

Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

Words are good, but there is something better. The best cannot be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be only understood and represented by the spirit.