No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

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

What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.

Life is but a preparation for what there is to come.

National literature does not mean much these days; now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten thearrival of that age.

The little man is still a man.