The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer; but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.

He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.

Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.

Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!

God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.

Only fools don't contradict themselves

An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion; the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it.