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

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.

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

You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.

Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.