Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.

The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.

Give me those days with heart in riot, The depths of bliss that touched on pain, The force of hate, and love's disquiet- Ah, give me back my youth again!

Architecture is crystallized music.

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Rash combat oft immortalizes man; if he should fall, he is renowned in song; but after-ages reckon not the ceaseless tears which the forsaken woman sheds. Poets tell us not of the many nights consumed in weeping, or of the dreary days wherein her anguished soul vainly yearns to call her loved one back.

Superstition is the poetry of life.