Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.

You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy best among miners; and so with everything else.

To know where a thing is we must have found it.

The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.

Happy is it, indeed, for me that my heart is capable of feeling the same simple and innocent pleasure as the peasant whose table is covered with food of his own rearing, and who not only enjoys his meal, but remembers with delight the happy days and sunny mornings when he planted it, the soft evenings when he watered it, and the pleasure he experienced in watching its daily growth.