Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.

To a valet no man is a hero.

One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message.

Art will always be art.

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

Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! What you can do, or think you can, begin it! Only engage, and then the mind grows heated; Begin it, and the work will be completed.

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.