Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.

A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.

Those only obtain love, for the most part, who seek it not.

Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.

Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare that productivity lasts through the years.

The web of this world is woven of Necessity and Chance. Woe to him who has accustomed himself from his youth up to find something necessary in what is capricious, and who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.