The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.

A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.

When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.

Even though the world as a whole progresses, youth must always start again from the beginning, and as individuals go through the epochs of the world's culture.

We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly acheive in an age.

If one doesn't know one's own country, one doesn't have standards for foreign countries.