We cannot and must not get rid of nor deny our characteristics. But we can give them shape and direction.

Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

One doesn't always lose when one has to do without.

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

I do not now begin, - I still adore Her whom I early cherish'd in my breast; Then once again with prudence dispossess'd, And to whose heart I'm driven back once more. The love of Petrarch, that all-glorious love, Was unrequited, and, alas, full sad.

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.