As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.

A heart that overflows may seek out merrymaking and boisterous festivities to quietly rejoice, unnoticed amidst the reveling crowds.

If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.

Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?

Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!

Two soldiers and a villain are enough to blow up the rights of the citizens.