It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his own shape.

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

She was a lovely blonde, with fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth.

With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.

If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.

Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.

The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.