Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.

The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain.

Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another.

What is fruitful alone is true.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

And we went our separate ways without having understood each other. As in this world nobody understands the other easily.