Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

In the end we are all separate: our stories, no matter how similar, come to a fork and diverge. We are drawn to each other because of our similarities, but it is our differences we must learn to respect.

Who strives always to the utmost, him can we save.

If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.

Ye great teachers: listen to what you say!

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.