How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.

I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.

Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.

At the end of life thoughts hitherto impossible come to the collected mind, like good spirits which let themselves down from the shining heights of the past.

There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational.

Our earthly ball a peopled garden.

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.