See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.

The years wrinkle our skin, but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles our soul.

Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.

Young people nowadays love luxury; they have bad manners and contempt for authority. They show disrespect for old people... contradict their parents, talk constantly in front of company, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers.

Those who want the fewest things are nearest to the gods.

Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.