Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills.

The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.

Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.

If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.

Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.