Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants’ quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty.
Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no joy.
Have patience with the quarrelsomeness of the stupid. It is not easy to comprehend that one does not comprehend.
Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.
So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.
To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.
We don’t believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.
In meeting again after a separation acquaintances ask after our outward life friends after our inner life.
We can be wise from goodness and good from wisdom.
To have and not to give is often worse than to steal.
Whenever two good people argue over principles they are both right.
Only the thinking man lives his life the thoughtless man’s life passes him by.
We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don’t care for.
Nothing is so often irretrievably missed as a daily opportunity.
How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy.
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.
If there be a faith that can move mountains it is faith in one’s own power.
As far as your self-control goes as far goes your freedom.
They understand but little who understand only what can be explained.
If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.
We don’t believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.
Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.
What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.