Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope.

A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

The misfortune in the state is, that nobody can enjoy life in peace, but that everybody must govern; and in art, that nobody will enjoy what has been produced, but that every one wants to reproduce on his own account.

Marriage is the beginning and pinnacle of civilization.