“If you looked busy, you could get away with almost anything.”

When the foot of the’ mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us.

I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.

The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.

Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.

With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.

The world is the same everywhere.

Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.

We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.

Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.

What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words hold sway everywhere.

Years teach us more than books.

Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.

If you sound great in the practice room, you’re practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.

Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.

No mortal eye has ever fully seen a flash of lightning … for no matter how firmly we look, our eyes are sure to be dazzled.

To be almost saved is to be totally lost.

You know them so well, almost as well or better than their spouse. You have to know them, warts and all.

Not all love lives forever. But is it not love still? The maybe and the almost. And the love that never will.

Makes almost everybody uncomfortable, and a few, extraordinarily rich.

Almost no one has studied health.

…Almost everything inside was filled with sugar, cheese, and weight-loss tips.

Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.

I will never forget the love we almost had.