When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.

Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.

Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark.

The eternal feminine draws us on high.

People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.

It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.

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