Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.