There is something in us that is wiser than our head.

Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will. (One can choose what to do, but not what to want.)

Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.

In our early youth we sit before the life that lies ahead of us like children sitting before the curtain in a theatre, in happy and tense anticipation of whatever is going to appear. Luckily we do not know what really will appear.

In many cases hate a person is rooted in the involuntary estimate of its virtues.

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.