Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants’ quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty.

Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.

There are times when to be reasonable is to be cowardly.

We ask the poet: 'What subject have you chosen?' instead of: 'What subject has chosen you?

Not reading a beautiful book again because you've already read it, that is, as if you were not visiting a dear friend again because you know him already.

The greatest enemy of justice is privilege.

Kindness which is not inexhaustible does not deserve the name.