No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

This verse gets me through each day, what doesn't kill us makes us stronger! I am not afraid of anything because the lord is my shepherd!

I speak and the child plays: who can be more serious than we are?

Those are my enemies: they want to overthrow and to construct nothing themselves. They say: "All that is worthless"--and want to create no value themselves.

One should never know too precisely whom one has married

What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good--the atavismof an older ideal.

Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?