If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

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

True love is love that stays constant for ever, whatever it's fortune; whether requited or scored, filled or sent empty away.

It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.

Architecture is crystallized music.