To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
It cost me never a stab nor squirm To tread by chance upon a worm. 'Aha, my little dear' I say, 'Your clan will pay me back one day.'
If you start to take Vienna - take Vienna.
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
We don't love a woman for what she says, but we like what she says because we love her.
The man who has done his level best, and who is conscious that he has done his best, is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me.
The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.
A distinguished diplomat could hold his tongue in ten languages.
He who desires naught will always be free.
Time is change, transformation, evolution.
Man is a wanting animal - as soon as one of his needs is satisfied, another appears in its place. This process is unending. It continues from birth to death.
Fortune is fickle and soon asks back what he has given.
I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
God eagerly awaits the chance to bless the person whose heart is turned toward Him.