He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.

Love is a grave mental illness.

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.

From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle.