What we do not understand we do not possess.

When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie buried under the ruins of the churches, that have themselves crumbled together over them; we may fancy the life after death to be as a second life, into which man enters in the figure, or the picture or the inscription, and lives longer there than when he was really alive. But this figure also, this second existence, dies out too, sooner or later. Time will not allow himself to be cheated of his rights with the monuments of men or with themselves.

What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.

That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.

A noble man is led by woman's gentle words.

Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy.