Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here.

A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive; then they have the parts and the'be lost the whole, for the link that's missing was the living soul.

Of the book of books most wondrous is the tender book of love.

There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

We who didn't inherit political power nor are made to acquire riches like nothing better than that which expands and solidifies the power of the spirit.