True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laugther, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world.
In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it.
Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.
Happy are the people whose annals are blank in history books
Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.