When married one has to get into an argument once in a while since in this way one learns about the other.

Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.

Moral epochs have their course as well as the seasons. We can no more hold them fast than we can hold sun, moon, and stars. Our faults perpetually return upon us; and herein lies the subtlest difficulty of self-knowledge.

Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

Our senses don't deceive us: our judgment does

He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.