One doesn't always lose when one has to do without.

Shakespeare is a great psychologist, and whatever can be known of the heart of man may be found in his plays.

Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious.

Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.

It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily met with; truth is hid in great depths, the way to seek does not appear to all the world.

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.

If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.