In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.

A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.

Where there is no love, a person's faithfulness to the marriage bond is probably against nature.

The problem with Germans is that they look in the clouds for what lies at their feet.

Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.

That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject.

The little incidents and accidents of every day fill us with emotion, anxiety, annoyance, passion, as long as they are close to us, when they appear so big, so important, so serious; but as soon as they are borne down the restless stream of time they lose what significance they had; we think no more of them and soon forget them altogether. They were big only because they were near.