“Teach thy tongue to say, “I do not know,” and thous shalt progress.”

Learn everything that is good from others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others.

I wrote what I felt and that is what I preached.

Love the life you live. Live the life you love.

„If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.”

The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.

If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.