It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.

Paternity is based anyhow only upon conviction: I am convinced, therefore, I am the father.

Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.

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.

Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.

To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together.

Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.