Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him! [Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann den Teufel festzuhalten.

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

To be sure, we have inherited abilities, but our development we owe to thousands of influences coming from the world around us from which we appropriate what we can and what is suitable to us.

Some people spend the day in complaining of a headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.

There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.

Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original.