People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were.

The sea is flowing ever, The land retains it never.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

It is always a sign of an unproductive time when it concerns itself with petty and technical aspects [in philology], and likewiseit is a sign of an unproductive person to pursue such trifles.

Everyone only hears what he understands.

Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.

A man would create another man if one did not already exist, but a woman might live an eternity without even thinking of reproducing her own sex.