What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness.

In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs

And if a friend does you wrong, then say: "I forgive you what you have done to me; that you have done it to YOURSELF, however--how could I forgive that!

The job of rearing a child consists of making conscious activities unconscious.

Iron necessity is a thing which in the course of history men come to see as neither iron nor necessary.

The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.

It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former gives evidence of power and afterwards of kindness of character.