No one should be rich except those who understand it.

We are not all equal, nor can we be so.

Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.

The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.

We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.

All of us, just because we are able to talk, also believe we are able to talk about language.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.