I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.

The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.

I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.

In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.

I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.