Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish.

With little wit and ease to suit them, They whirl in narrow circling trails, Like kittens playing with their tails.

We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.

The theater has often been at variance with the pulpit; they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished that in both the celebration of nature and of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds.

He who can not learn to love must flatter.