The brain is a tool that gets rusty without constant, albeit moderate, exercise.

These tears do me good, they have watered the parched place; perhaps my heart will grow again there!

A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity.

We must have a passion in life.

Fame and admiration weigh not a feather in the scale against friendship and love, for the heart languishes all the same.

God abandons only those who abandon themselves, and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow within his own heart is stronger to fight against it than he who complains.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties of language. Language is a prostitute queen who descends and rises to all roles. Disguises herself, arrays herself in fine apparel, hides her head and effaces herself; an advocate who has an answer for everything, who has always foreseen everything, and who assumes a thousand forms in order to be right. The most honorable of men is he who thinks best and acts best, but the most powerful is he who is best able to talk and write