Chance arrives unannounced. It emerges, and when it leaves, we are lucky if the changes it has produced are only external.

Distinctly different as a child, as an adolescent, in his prime and in his old age, man considers himself as one, not because he acts, but because he knows.

Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.

Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.

No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.

Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.

Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.