The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.
Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.