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Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehensio...more

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Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion.

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Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.

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The way you see people is the way you treat them and the way you treat them is what they become.

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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away.

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Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it ...more

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If I wasn't a devil myself I'd give Me up to the Devil this very minute.

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By Fortune's adverse buffets overborneTo solitude I fled, to wilds forlorn,And not in utter loneliness to live,Myself at last did to the Devil give!

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What matters creative endless toil, When, at a snatch, oblivion ends the coil?

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Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

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It is not easy in this world for one person to understand the next one.