Conquer but never triumph.

Distrust your judgment the moment you can discern the shadow of a personal motive in it.

Origins are of the greatest importance. We are almost reconciled to having a cold when we remember where we caught it.

Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes.

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

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.

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