The sickness of the heart is most easily got rid of by complaining and soothing confidence.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

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

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.

The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.

When she sees the leaves fall, they raise no other idea in her mind than that winter is approaching.