The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.

Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.

The butterfly long loved the beautiful rose, And flirted around all day; While round him in turn with her golden caress, Soft fluttered the sun's warm ray.... I know not with whom the rose was in love, But I know that I loved them all. The butterfly, rose, and the sun's bright ray, The star and the bird's sweet call.

I do not know the meaning of my sadness; there is an old fairy tale that I cannot get out of my mind.

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.

He who fights with priests may make up his mind to have his poor good name torn and befouled by the most infamous lies and the most cutting slanders.