He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered.

God help us -- for art is long, and life so short.

One must keep repeating the Truth.

If you want to get pleasure out of life, you must attach value to the world.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

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

I have never looked at foreign countries or gone there but with the purpose of getting to know the general human qualities that are spread all over the earth in very different forms, and then to find these qualities again in my own country and to recognize and to further them.