Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health is short-lived.

By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him.

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

Frugality is a handsome income.

Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.

Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.