It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

We cannot wish for that we know not.

All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.