One lives but once in the world.

Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.

You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man.

As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.

A noble man is led by woman's gentle words.

nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.