For when there are no words, it is very difficult to recognize the meaning of the harmony and rhythm, or to see any worldly object is imitated by them.

As there are misanthropists or haters of men, so also are there misologists, or haters of ideas.

People regard the same things, some as just and others as unjust, - about these they dispute; and so there arise wars and fightings among them.

The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful

He who without the Muse's madness in his soul comes knocking at the door of poesy and thinks that art will make him anything fit to be called a poet, finds that the poetry which he indites in his sober senses is beaten hollow by the poetry of madmen.

Ignorance: the root of all evil.

Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways.