We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another.

Even though the world as a whole progresses, youth must always start again from the beginning, and as individuals go through the epochs of the world's culture.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.

Manners form the great charm of women.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude; it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.