Do you want to live happily? Travel with two bags, one for giving, the other for receiving.

Higher aims are in themselves more valuable, even if unfulfilled, than lower ones quite attained.

It is a misfortune to pass at once from observation to conclusion, and to regard both as of equal value; but it befalls many a student.

How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action.

There is no outward sign of true courtesy that does not rest on a deep moral foundation.

Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains.

Is it not enough that we cannot make one another happy, must we also rob one another of the pleasures that any heart may permit itself now and then? And name me a person who in a bad mood will be decent enough to hide it, to bear it alone, without destroying the joy around him. Is it not rather an inner dissatisfaction with our own unworthiness, a dislike of ourselves that is always associated with envy aggravated by foolish conceit? We see people happy and not made happy by us, and that is unbearable.