The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity

I love those who yearn for the impossible

Wisdom is found only in truth

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live

Love is an ideal thing, marriage is a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them, they translate it into their own language, and forthwith it means something entirely different

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks

Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one