Whoever possesses abundant joy must be a good man: but he is probably not the cleverest man, although he achieves exactly what it is that the cleverest man strives with all his cleverness to achieve.

We only hear questions that we are able to answer.

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.

But anyone who has really made sacrifices knows that he wanted and got something in return perhaps something for something of himself - that he gave up in order to have more here or at least to feel that he has "more".

We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no opportunity to practice these feelings, our soul becomes dry and unsuited even to understanding the tender inventions of loving people.

Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile.

Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.