We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.
In youth we learn in age we understand.
What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.
How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy.
To have and not to give is often worse than to steal.
As far as your self-control goes as far goes your freedom.
We must prepare and study truth under every aspect endeavoring to ignore nothing if we do not wish to fall into the abyss of the unknown when the hour shall strike.
We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.
Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.
They understand but little who understand only what can be explained.
Conquer but never triumph.
Only the thinking man lives his life the thoughtless man's life passes him by.
If there be a faith that can move mountains it is faith in one's own power.
We can be wise from goodness and good from wisdom.
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Do your duty until it becomes your joy.
Whenever two good people argue over principles they are both right.
If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.
Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.
In meeting again after a separation acquaintances ask after our outward life friends after our inner life.