Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

Cooking is a form of flattery....a mischievous, deceitful, mean and ignoble activity, which cheats us by shapes and colors, by smoothing and draping.

No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.

Maximize the power of the beliefs that strengthen you and neutralize those that weaken you.

At the touch of love, everyone is a poet.

Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from cowardice fall behind.

For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes out of his mind and his intellect is no longer in him.