To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

Human life-everybody lives it, but only to a few is it known.

Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.

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.

Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.

Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.

One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows.