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

Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.

The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.

If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.

What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.

To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.