Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.

When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.

When the foot of the' mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us.

Years teach us more than books.

Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.

I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.

The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.