People who, out of an inborn moderation, leave every glass standing only half-emptied refuse to admit that everything in the world has its sediments and dregs.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.

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.

A vocation is the backbone of life.

I and me are always too deeply in conversation.