There are few who have at once thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows.

The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.

Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose!

I have observed that as long as one lives and bestirs himself, he can always find food and raiment, though it may not be of the choicest description.