Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.

Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?

Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.

If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.

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

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.

The style of an author is a faithful copy of his mind.