All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

No book was ever written down by any but itself.

I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws, than with a sloven and unpresentable person. Moral qualities rule the world, but at shorter distances, the senses are despotic.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards.

Do what we can, summer will have its flies.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues.