When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

Noble be man, helpful and good!

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

Every man bears something within him that, if it were publicly announced, would excite feelings of aversion.

Plants and flowers of the commonest kind can form a pleasing diary, because nothing which calls back to us the remembrance of a happy moment can be insignificant.

People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.

When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.