💬 Quotes

"Paper patient than people."

"Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness."

"As long as this exists, and this should last forever, this sunshine, this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?"

"Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!"

"Poetry in general seems to have sprung from two causes, each of them lying deep in our nature. First, the instinct of imitation is implanted in man from childhood."

"Tragedy is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude; in language embellished with each kind of artistic ornament... through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation of these emotions."

"The plot, then, is the first principle, and, as it were, the soul of a tragedy: Character holds the second place."

"Homer surely deserves praise on many other counts, and especially because he alone among epic poets is not unaware of the part to be played by the poet himself in the poem."

"For the plot ought to be so constructed that, even without the aid of the eye, he who hears the tale told will thrill with horror and melt to pity at what takes place."

"A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility."

"A sweet marsh-mallow, as sensitive as a geranium—not half hard enough."

"I don't care whether I walk or not. I only want to go to the Chillon Castle."

"You are a very strange man. I shouldn't think you were a American by your talking."

"Lord, give me back my mother and my sister, or give me sight!"

"The poor girl was a young American who was flouting the rules of the society in which she had been bred."

"She would be an inscrutable mystery if she weren't so artless."

"I have always been most particular. But I must decline to judge a person who has been vulgar enough to go about with Giovanelli."

"Wäre es da nicht einfach Blödsinn, sich mit diesem tönernen Figurenkram abzugeben, sich den Kopf heiß zu brüten über etwas, das im Grunde doch nur ein Nichts ist?"

"Das Schachspiel hat ja das vor anderen Spielen voraus, dass es seine Meister an keinerlei Sprachgrenzen bindet."

"Schach ist ja nur darum eine solche Teufelskunst, weil es keinen anderen Raum hat als den unsichtbaren, und weil seine Figuren gleichwohl von einer geometrischen Strenge sind, die uns den Kopf zerbrechen kann."