Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants’ quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty.
~ Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no joy.
Have patience with the quarrelsomeness of the stupid. It is not easy to comprehend that one does not comprehend.
Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.
To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.
To have and not to give is often worse than to steal.
Conquer but never triumph.
In youth we learn in age we understand.
If there be a faith that can move mountains it is faith in one's own power.
As far as your self-control goes as far goes your freedom.
If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.
We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.
Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.
What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.
