To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence - - this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.

A well-bred carriage is difficult to imitate; for in strictness it is negative, and it implies a long-continued previous training.

The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.

There is nothing new on earth / For a person who lives long and experiences much. / In my years of youthful wandering / I have seen crystallized people.

Wanted: A dog that neither barks nor bites, eats broken glass and shits diamonds.

Marriage is the beginning and pinnacle of civilization.

The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannotbe explored.