If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.

The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.

The child, offered the mother's breast, Will not in the beginning grab it; But soon it clings to it with zest. And thus at wisdom's copious breasts You'll drink each day with greater zest.

The close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady growth of knowledge more and more new problems keep on emerging.

Change amuses the mind, but rarely profits.

Man would not be the finest creature in the world if he were not too fine for it.

Know'st thou yesterday, its aim and reason? Work'st thou will today for worthier things? Then calmly wait the morrow's hidden season, And fear thou not, what hap soe'er it brings