Judge a man's character by what he finds ridiculous.

Man's restlessness makes him strive.

A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.

All truths are old, and all that we have to do is recognize and utter them anew.

I make presents to the mother but think of the daughter.