Sensuality often forces the growth of love too much, so that its root remains weak, and is easily torn up.
Presumption in connection with merit offends us even more than presumption in persons devoid of merit, for merit in itself offends us.
Perhaps I know best why man is the only animal that laughs: he alone suffers so excruciatingly that he was compelled to invent laughter.
Out of the deepest must the highest come to its height.
Our vanity is most difficult to wound just when our pride has been wounded.
Our treasure is there, where stand the hives of our knowledge.
Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it; it is the future that makes laws for our today.
Only where there are graves are there resurrections.
Only thoughts won by walking are valuable.
One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and petty ones to fear.
One should hold fast one’s heart; for when one letteth it go, how quickly doth one’s head run away!
One requiteth a teacher badly if one remain merely a scholar.
