There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.

The joy which is caused by truth and noble thoughts shows itself in the words by which they are expressed.

Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Lenity is a part of justice; but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice.

One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man.

You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.