At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly.

One lives but once in the world.

Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.

The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.

All is born of water; all is sustained by water.

Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature; he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself.

We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.