Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.