If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

Some people spend the day in complaining of a headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.

One does not get to know that one exists until one rediscovers oneself in others.

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

When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive; then they have the parts and the'be lost the whole, for the link that's missing was the living soul.

We learn to treasure what is above this earth; we long for revelation, which nowhere burns more purely and more beautifully than in the New Testament.

Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.