Travelling expands the mind rarely

Where words fail, music speaks

Every man's life is a fairytale written by God's fingers

Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg

My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident

Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale

You say you have thousands of my days; but I have thousands of moments, in which I can be merry and happy

Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly

It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead - these the living

When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life