To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.

Easy come, easy go... "Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing" schemes don't work, they are just not logical

Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs.

Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.

No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.