Life is a well of joy; but for those out of whom an upset stomach speaks, which is the father of melancholy, all wells are poisoned.

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.

We should conserve evil just as we should conserve the forests. It is true that by thinning and clearing the forests the earth grew warmer.

Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end.

The best way to give assistance to those who are deeply embarrassed and to calm them down is to praise them decisively.

In the end one only experiences oneself.

I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals.