On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much.
If you want to make life easy, make it hard.
The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.
When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face.
To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.
The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable; the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical value.
He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent.
Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.
Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.
We can really respect a man only if he doesn’t always look out for himself.
A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.
He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.
What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
In art, the best is good enough.
People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.
Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.
A joy shared is a joy doubled.