Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it's a mess: just one surprise after another. Then, later, you see it was perfect.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Apart from man, no being wonders at its own experience.

To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.

The scenes of our life are like pictures done in rough mosaic. Looked at close, they produce no effect. There is nothing beautiful to be found in them, unless you stand some distance off.