Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament.

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.

We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure.

In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book.

Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are friends.

Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who experiences them, is not something dreadful also.

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.