A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.

Most thoughts are only profiles of thoughts. They must be inverted and synthesized with their antipodes. Thus many philosophical writings become very interesting which would not have been so otherwise.

Just as a child is really a thing that wants to become a man, so is the poem an object of nature that wants to become an object ofart.

The highest good and solely useful is liberal education.

Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.

As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.

Honor is the mysticism of legality