All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

the fruit of life is experience, not happiness.

move not in your anger; it is like putting to sea in a tempest.

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

When a man has calamity upon calamity the world generally concludes that he must be a very wicked man to deserve them. Perhaps the world is right; but it is also just possible that the world ... may be wrong.

Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.

Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.