Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.

Everything is simpler than one can imagine, and yet complicated and inter-twined beyond comprehension.

A vi'let on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew, It was a modest flower. A shepherdess pass'd by that way-- Light footed, pretty and so gay; That way she came, Softly warbling forth her lay.

Let no one be ashamed to say yes today if yesterday he said no. Or to say no today if yesterday he said yes. For that is life. Never to have changed-what a pitiable thing of which to boast!

And step by step, along the path of life, There's nothing true but Heaven.

Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.