It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands.

He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy.

If any of you would bring judgment the unfaithful wife, let him also weight the heart of her husband in scales, and measure his soul with measurements.

He who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother. For even your own kindred neither understand you nor know your true worth.

The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.

From a sensitive woman's heart springs the happiness of mankind, and from the kindness of her noble spirit comes mankind's affection.

The "I" in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable.