Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.

But the valid issue is the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.

Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity.

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments.

The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.

I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it