Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

I have observed that as long as one lives and bestirs himself, he can always find food and raiment, though it may not be of the choicest description.

The soul-stirring image of death is no bugbear to the sage, and is looked on without despair by the pious. It teaches the former to live, and it strengthens the hopes of the latter in salvation in the midst of distress. Death is new life to both.

A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state.

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

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.