Nothing tells more about the character of a man than the things he makes fun of.
Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.
Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
The finished man, you know, is difficult to please; a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3
A joy shared is a joy doubled.
The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.