"Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent."

"Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing, and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for."

"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe."

"It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united."

"Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing"

"Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it is sure to repent every ill-judged outlay."

"If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise."

"Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be."

"One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going."

"What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won."

"A distracted existence leads us to no goal."

"There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste."

"Mysteries are not necessarily miracles."

"One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks."

"Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune is always here."

"If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this and not remain in your debt long."

"Only law can give us freedom."

"Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it"

"Yes! To this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom and existence Who daily conquers them anew."

"Individuality seems to be Nature's whole aim -- and she cares nothing for individuals."

"Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon."

"has played a powerful part in shaping the opinions of the group of intellectuals who are behind Hitler in the epoch-making program."

"At the moment of commitment, the universe conspires to assist you."

"To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state."