Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.
It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.
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.
Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation.
It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.