Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!

Win for yourself that which your fathers have won.

Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.

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

All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.

The passions are like those demons with which Afrasahiab sailed down the Orus. Our only safety consists in keeping them asleep. If they we are lost.