At Kiel, as elsewhere, a day goes by somehow or other.

However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten

My house is small, but may heaven grant that it is never full of friends.

I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me.

In lighthearted countries, people joked about this phenomenon, but such serious, practical countries as England, America, and Germany were deeply concerned.

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.

Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.