One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.

And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence.

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

There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.

The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.