The happiest man is the one who finds happiness at home.

if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.

One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and of the most decisive value to man.

I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust.

The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able to form some conception.

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the dusk the plainest writing is illegible.