Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.

It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.

Talent develops in quiet, alone; character is sharpened in the torrent of the world.

All one needs to do is declare oneself free and one will immediately feel dependent. If you dare to declare yourself dependent, you feel independent.

And we went our separate ways without having understood each other. As in this world nobody understands the other easily.

What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.

Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.