Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

When she sees the leaves fall, they raise no other idea in her mind than that winter is approaching.

Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly acheive in an age.

The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.