A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.

The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.

In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep.

Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.

Keep not money, but keep good people's company.

A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.

As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don't leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards!