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.

It is a misfortune to pass at once from observation to conclusion, and to regard both as of equal value; but it befalls many a student.

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

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

This being busied with thoughts of immortality is for the noble classes and especially for women with nothing to do. A solid person, though, someone who already intends to be something worthy here, and who therefore has to strive daily, has to struggle and work, gives the world to come a rest.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

How happy he who can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know not, that we are anxious to possess, and cannot use what we know.