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.

That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.

A leaf that is destined to grow large is full of grooves and wrinkles at the start. Now if one has no patience and wants it smooth offhand like a willow leaf, there is trouble ahead.

Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient.

The happiest man is the one who finds happiness at home.