All the world loves a lover.

He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.

If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?

Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market cart into a chariot of the sun.

Every discourse is an approximate answer: but it is of small consequence, that we do not get it into verbs and nouns, whilst it abides for contemplation forever.

If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty, the power of character.

It is vain to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it. It will tell itself.