And if there's love, you can do without happiness too. Even with sorrow, life is sweet.

Of course I shall go astray often...for who does not make mistakes? But I cannot go far wrong for I have seen the truth.

There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for life in later years than some good memory, especially a memory connected with childhood, with home.

Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.

There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.

To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well.

You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?