Life is too short to drink bad wine.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have otherwise occurred...unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.

People can only live with their equals, and not even with them; for in the long run they cannot tolerate that someone is their equal.

Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages.

It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.

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.

Words express neither objects nor ourselves.