Do the duty which lies nearest to thee.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated.

Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.

Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.

After all, poets shouldn't be their own interpreters and shouldn't carefully dissect their poems into everyday prose; that would mean the end of being poets. Poets send their creations into the world, it is up to the reader, the aesthetician, and the critic to determine what they wanted to say with their creations.

The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity.