Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.

To make a face from marble means to remove from the slab everything that is not the face

If one wants to lead a good life, A HUMAN LIFE, one must work.

Only one who loves can remember so well.

A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.

I agree that one can't dispense with the reins and the whip altogether, for knaves find their way even into literature, but no thinking will discover a better police for literature than the critics and the author's own conscience.

We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.