Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought.

What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.

We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do?

There is always some madness in love.