Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.

The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety.

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.

It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.

The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently.

To be active is the primary vocation of man.