Love is strong in its passion; affection is powerful in its gentleness.

Woman is the Sunday of man: not his repose only, but his joy; the salt of his life.

Every epoch dreams its successor.

Coffee, the sober drink, the mighty nourishment of the brain, which unlike other spirits, heightens purity and lucidity; coffee, which clears the clouds of the imagination and their gloomy weight; which illuminates the reality of things suddenly with the flush of truth.

Achieving a goal is nothing. The getting there is everything.

He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.

Woe be to him who tries to isolate one department of knowledge from the rest. All science is one: language, literature and history, physics, mathematics and philosophy; subjects which seem the most remote from one another are in reality connected, or rather they all form a single system.