He is noble who both feels and acts nobly.

The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.

I bequeath all my property to my wife on the condition that she remarry immediately. Then there will be at least one man to regret my death.

Perfumes are the feelings of flowers, and as the human heart, imagining itself alone and unwatched, feels most deeply in the night-time, so seems it as if the flowers, in musing modesty, await the mantling eventide ere they give themselves up wholly to feeling...

In the marvelous month of May when all the buds were bursting, then in my heart did love arise. In the marvelous month of May when all the birds were singing, then did I reveal to her my yearning and longing.

The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel - and all of them are right.

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.