The man who sees little always sees less than there is to see; the man who hears badly always hears something more than there is to hear.

Smooth iceis paradisefor those who dance with expertise.

Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, - in me dove, snake and swine convene!

Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.

How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error.

The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.

I am almost equal to a shadow.