Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.

If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be, you do.

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.