In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.

There are very few honest friends--the demand is not particularly great.

To be young is delightful; to be old is comfortable.

Not reading a beautiful book again because you've already read it, that is, as if you were not visiting a dear friend again because you know him already.

Many think they have a kind heart who have only weak nerves.

Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.

A man with lofty ideas is an uncomfortable neighbor.