The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

If you want to get pleasure out of life, you must attach value to the world.

These auspicious aspects, which the astrologers subsequently interpreted for me, may have been the causes of my preservation.

When I say to the Moment flying; 'Linger a while -- thou art so fair!' Then bind me in thy bonds undying, And my final ruin I will bear!

When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.