Sooner mayest thou trust thy pocket to a pickpocket than give loyal friendship to the man who boasts of eyes to the heart never mounts in dew! Only when man weeps he should be alone, not because tears are weak, but they should be secret. Tears are akin to prayer,--Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.

At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue.

Better than fame is still the wish for fame, the constant training for a glorious strife.

He who sees his heir in his own child, carries his eye over hopes and possessions lying far beyond his gravestone, viewing his life, even here, as a period but closed with a comma. He who sees his heir in another man's child sees the full stop at the end of the sentence.

It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.

Remedy your deficiencies,and your merits will take care of themselves.

To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: Leave no stone unturned.