Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.

I was quite depressed two weeks ago when I spent an afternoon at Brentano's Bookshop in New York and was looking at the kind of books most people read. Once you see that you lose all hope.

Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.

Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.

The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?

As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.