The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.

Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man.

People resemble still more the time in which they live, than they resemble their fathers.

Experience is the extract of suffering.

If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.

He who is continually changing his point of view sees more, and more clearly, than one who, statue-like, forever stands upon the same pedestal; however lofty and well-placed that pedestal may be.

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?