There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.

He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

What sort of faults may we retain, nay, even cherish in ourselves? Those faults which are rather pleasant than offensive to others.

Stones are mute teachers; they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.