Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.

Silence is terrible and painful only to those who have said all and have nothing more to speak of; but to those who never had anything to say— to them silence is simple and easy.

Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future

Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.

Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.