What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.

Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.

Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.

The first indication of a young person's growing smarter is that he no longer understands the things which he used to consider quite intelligible and self-evident.

When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental — far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.

The real genres: good and bad.

Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.