We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.

Enthusiasm is of the greatest value, so long as we are not carried away by it.

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!

When one is polite in German, one lies.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.