A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
A thought may be very commendable as a thought, but I value it chiefly as a window through which I can obtain insight on the thinker.
Each time we love, We turn nearer and a broader mark To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
Es gibt nichts Gutes in dieser Welt, das die Zeit nicht verbessert.
Everything is sweetened by risk.
Größe hat der Mann, der etwas zum ersten Male bewirkt.
Heute ist immer anders als Gestern.
If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.
If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distincitve character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.
It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some single irradiating word.
Love and friendship are the discoveries of ourselves in others, and our delight in the recognition; and in men, as in books, we only know that, the parallel of which we have in ourselves.
Mißerfolg und Erfolg unterliegen nicht dem Zufall, sondern der Gerechtigkeit.
Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a hundred picnics.
Sterben müssen, ist eine Auszeichnung, auf die kein Mensch stolz ist.
The globe has been circumnavigated, but no man ever yet has; you may survey a kingdom and note the result in maps, but all the savants in the world could not produce a reliable map of the poorest human personality.
The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.
To bring the best human qualities to anything like perfection, to fill them with the sweet juices of courtesy and charity; prosperity; or, at all events, a moderate amount of it, is required.
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.
Wenn du ein Geheimnis bewahren willst, hülle es in Offenheit.
When a man is happy, every effort to express his happiness mars its completeness.
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