A scholar knows no boredom.

Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent.

The gymnasium of running, walking on stilts, climbing, etc. stells and makes hardy single powers and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poesy, embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.

Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.

We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.