He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Change amuses the mind, but rarely profits.

Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.

We have time enough if we but use it aright

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.