Truth is fire, and to speak the truth means to shine and to burn

- Leopold Schefer

They make much of our drinking, but never think of our thirst.

- Leopold Schefer

But one on earth is better than the wife; that is the mother.

- Leopold Schefer

Each time thou wishest to decide upon performing some enterprise, raise the eyes to heaven, pray God to bless thy project; if thou canst make that pr…

- Leopold Schefer

The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry.

- Leopold Schefer