Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the deed, is living and can live on.

Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains.

Can a sparrow know how a stork feels?

So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover.

What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.

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.

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.