With our parents we bury our past, with our children our future.
Misanthropy is a suit of armor lined with thorns.
We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to wait for.
Kindness which is not inexhaustible does not deserve the name.
Age either transfigures or petrifies.
That bad manners are so prevalent in the world is the fault of good manners.
The world belongs to those who possess it, and is scorned by those to whom it should belong.
Indifference of every kind is reprehensible, even indifference towards one’s self.
Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.
We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don’t care for.
You stay young as long as you can learn, acquire new habits, and suffer contradictions.
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
They understand but a little who understand only what can be explained.
To have and not to give is often worse than to steal.
In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.
When the time comes in which one could, the time has passed in which one can.
Not reading a beautiful book again because you’ve already read it, that is, as if you were not visiting a dear friend again because you know him already.
Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no joy.
Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.