Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

On all the peaks lies peace.

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

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

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.